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A Little box in a place
This project involves a familiar element taken from the landscape of India by using bamboo. The bamboo stalks are sliced into thin strips and woven to form a 33 feet long wave shaped basket that almost serves as an appendage to the architectural space. In this installation the basket represents a balance between the outdoor and indoor space.
Kazue’s work creates a dialogue between negative and positive space. Her installations are composed by household elements like containers. She negotiates between the architectural space; negative and positive as well as outdoor and indoor spaces. She has used materials such as stone, marble, and flat bars of steel in her previous works.
The space at venkatappa art gallery was good enough to do something new. She chose the balcony which was a part of the architecture and had the connection to tiny bamboo forest. The size of the balcony was about 8 meter x 9 meter and 1-meter high wall surrounds 3 sides of the base. Its shape was unique, not perfect rectangle but it looked like a sort of box. She used there as the vase of emptiness and set 2 objects as the flower of fullness with the consciousness for composing one relation toward the bamboo grove. Finally the peepal leaves putting in two baskets worked as the bridge to connect to two different cultures, India and Japan. To find these leaves let her accept a little piece of India-under the peepal tree.