FORESHADOWS

         In addition to attending the Obon Festival in Kyoto to research the custom of ancestor worship, I interviewed survivors who still perform the ritual in Hiroshima and Tokyo to commemorate ancestors and relatives who died in the war in 1945. Ebina Kayoko, Ogura Keiko and Inoue Tokio still remember their ancestors through Obon rituals.

         From observation, they have a way of remembering and narrating the story through the natural phenomena that occur after radiation from a nuclear explosion. Black Rain and Red Sky are issues that I am interested in, exploring the history and chemical reactions.

I created an installation that contains elements of animism and narrative. Influenced by the power of nature, fire and rivers in the ritual are a medium of connection between the human world and the spirit world.

          Related to history in 1945, this work questions the existence of God and religion.