hinoki reconstructed | Isamu Hazama
This project is an attempt to reconstruct hinoki trees felled by a landslide in a small satoyama area of Wakayama Prefecture, giving them a second life as new objects. While many hinoki forests exist around the author’s base village, most are difficult to utilize as material due to aging populations and industrial structures. The hinoki forest where the landslide occurred was planted about 60 years ago and was once carefully managed, but met a sad end. Isamu Hazama began researching the material after acquiring these felled hinoki logs from the locals. He picked up some logs that were too small for common purposes as material, and decomposed them into fundamental elements—point, line, and plane—observing them from multiple directions. Composing these point, line, and plane elements with volume again resulted in this series of objects.
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- Electrophotographic print on avaca paper
- size:
- 20cm × 27cm
24 pages