Yukiko Sugano(b.1983)'s creation begins with her own experience and emotions. Memories and emotions of the past come up repeatedly in various situations in everyday life, and they affect various things. They that influence unconsciously exist, even though they are intangible. She expresses the clear feeling that the body receives with a form of human beings and concrete motives. In addition, she thinks that glass is a material that can shape "light" as a phenomenon that strongly appeals to the human aesthetic sense. The work, "weight" exhibited in this exhibition was inspired by the worldwide spread of coronavirus. Sugano says she wanted to make something "heavy thing" that would prevent important things from flying away amid uncertainty about the future.
Yoko Tanaka(b.1992) expresses for flower life with ceramic. She says that when she touches clay with various properties such as plasticity and distortion due to dryness, she feels life physically. She thinks that when the clay with this property is baked and turned into ceramics, life becomes dangerous and delicate, yet powerful. The works in the exhibition are also strongly reminiscent of "life" with flowers pruned with flower arrangements and sympathetic flowers displayed on the altar at funerals.
Through Tomomi Hoonoki(b.1989)'s own sense, she embodies elements of the mosaic tiles of mosques, a mandala of esoteric Buddhism, statues of Kisshoten, and Jizo Bosatsu as objects of worship in all ages and countries. Spiritual creations that transcend human understanding, such as the existence of God and the world after death, have detailed and strong views of the world. Taking advantage of modern people's superiority in being able to touch them regardless of time or region, she makes new works to pray that combine her own sense. Hoonoki makes not only an artwork but also a vessel. If the general vessel is a physical vessel with practical use, the works of this exhibition have a meaning as a spiritual vessel to satisfy the hearts of the viewer.
Marina Yonetsu(b.1994) is engaged in artistic activities with the theme of capturing things that are inherent in things. As a reason for choosing glass as a medium, she cites the possibility of the material's permeability and diversity of techniques. Her current technique is to make a casted form cool down, make it crack, and reconstruct the broken glass pieces. She is expanding the range of expressions with her own unique technique. In the "Concept" series exhibited at this exhibition, the process of becoming conscious of death has been connected to the production. The bones inherent in a living creature incorporate living traces of the individual in genetic rules based on the structure and functions of nature. She perceives the beauty as a form, then burns it on glass, breaks it, and reconstructs it. Her productive process, creation, destruction, and reconstruction is also a slow contemplation of death.
