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“Stay out of it. And those really are the only words there are for us.” It’s getting closer and closer. But it never came. There was no sound, and it was still light outside. Don’t call out to me so much. I’m just about on my way right now. Now I know why he was saying such things.
Whereas in the afternoon of that day, very close to where we were living, it fell. Yes, there is only one person who I know. The transference of thermal energy. For this, there is nothing else to do but to leave it in the hands of the ways of nature. But no, that isn’t the work of nature, it is the work of the chemists. “So well-behaved that there’s no need to have a hand in it. So please do not put me in the shade.” Can’t you see now why he said such things?

1990-1991Steel190×180×320cm
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

“Stay out of it. And those really are the only words there are for us.” It’s getting closer and closer. But it never came. There was no sound, and it was still light outside. Don’t call out to me so much. I’m just about on my way right now. Now I know why he was saying such things.
Whereas in the afternoon of that day, very close to where we were living, it fell. Yes, there is only one person who I know. The transference of thermal energy. For this, there is nothing else to do but to leave it in the hands of the ways of nature. But no, that isn’t the work of nature, it is the work of the chemists. “So well-behaved that there’s no need to have a hand in it. So please do not put me in the shade.” Can’t you see now why he said such things?

1990-1991Steel190×180×320cm
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka