Layer Cup

These cups are made by wood varnish to make layers for permanence.

(This work is developed from the previous work(Leave a Trace 5).
It was made full cups with the varnish and poured it several time while it was drying.

Traces of my daily life

This film is expended the previous work and  leaving my traces of my daily life.

I painted luminous paints all my body and I was acting at home as normal.

After doing all, I turned off the light, so you could know what I had done.

Leave my Trace in London

This film is the process of my journey from waterloo statio to meet friends.

There are two screen which are seen my foot and my sight.

It means that one is the action to make traces where I had walked through and

the other is the memory about what I had seen.

Leave my Trace in London

In this stage, I wanted to leave my traces in London.

I marked number which is steps from Waterloo.

Hoping space to be expanded toward outside, I went to Waterloo Station.

Because I wanted to find a place shich is a symbol of travel for me and others as well.

Nowadays, St. Pancras is the eurostar station.

Thus, Waterloo, the former station, became a symbol fo travel as a trace.

And I live in Wimbledon, I go to waterloo directly whenever I go another place in London.

Those 4 piece of picture are a example of the way to record around the spot

that is by every 100 steps from Waterloo Station.

While I was walking, I just calculated my steps by each 100s.

After making this map, I found something interesting things that the spacing

between each numbers are different on two way.

The numbers on the bottom line, it is quite narrow comparing with upper one.

It means that was crowded in that road to walk at the moment.



Trace & Control

This process to make cup is a same idea to chopsticks one.

By using clay and plaster, I made a cup mould and then, I made hand pressed cup.

Those two experiments could controp people's action to hold cup or chopsticks.

It meas that traces have many information itself, so we can design something by using traces.

Trace & Control

In this stage, I wanted to develop the idea of 'Trace and Control'.

I painted the colour on my hand and grab chopsticks as normal.

Then, I cut the area I have touched, so others can use this chopsticks easily by my traces.

Trace & Control

One day, I found a something interesting that the action of hoplding a cup

could be changed by cup holder.

It means that the action can be controlled by specific objects.