“Cosmos”

The work “Cosmos” is a collectivity of microcosms made up by the concepts of each work and expresses a macrocosm, the universe, on the whole. The microcosms represented each of the works are an epitome of the world expressing our society and personal relationships by mimicking sounds. The sounds are visualized by letters on a detail of the microcosms, which highlighted in comparison with the macrocosm.

• Kosmos
  2012 / dimensions Variable / magazine “Kosmos”, paste, frame, acrylic sheet, glass
  These collage works are composed of illustrations and letters clipped from the science magazine “Kosmos” in Germany. Visualized sounds, briefly onomatopoeia (imitative and mimetic word), clarify situations of the illustrations and give them movements as well. Despite of cultural and linguistic differences, these works enable viewers to perceive nuances of the sounds automatically with the help of its pronunciation.
  
• Refuse meteor
  2012 / dimensions variable / various trashes, metal lacquer on the wall
  The works represent an image of meteor by giving small refuse on the street onomatopoeia（imitative and mimetic word）, which are associated with “flight”. It implies situations of our society and day life, in which everything has been fluid and changing continuously.
  
• Spiral silence
  2012 / 70 x 70cm / alphabetical confetti, paste, plastic wrap
  Alphabet makes sense, when it is spelled in a certain order. Otherwise it doesn’t have any meanings and cannot be read appropriately. It doesn’t make unreadable any more and means a silence.
  
• Baki-Baan-Barara
  2012 / 40 x 40 x 30cm / color pencil
  The title means a combination of sounds of pencil’s “snapping”, “bursting” and “falling”, and the form as well as the installation itself expresses these three movements. Its title “Baki-Baan-Barara” helps viewers to imagine the “sounds” visually which cannot be perceived aurally in reality.