Kanchi (Trading places)
From March 2008 to March 2009 I was based at 2-2-72-4 Kadonowaki, ishinomaki city, Miyagi prefecture, which was also my studio. In April 2009, when I moved to Tokyo, I relocated two frames of shoji-screens, which used to divide the living room and the engawa (a wooden-floored corridor) facing the garden at the studio, to my apartment in Tokyo. The house disappeared because of the tsunami caused by the Great East-Japan Earthquake. Today, in June 2014, the place where my studio used to be is being rezoned by the city, and its address will be altered by Kanchi.
※Kanchi Relocation to the newly improved district.
material:Plate glass, a shoji-screen without paper,
registration of a piece of land,
a copy of rezoning plan, acrylic resin case
photo:Shinya KIGURE