This work reflects an image captured from multiple perspectives. The landscape is fragmented by a square lens, giving birth to a reconstructed image. The new image invites us to see and think about things from a different perspective. It is reconstituted on the lens out of a choice of different elements derived as much from what we know about the object as from what we see.

Through this work, I was interested in the composition of the space, what people first see and feel when they look at a landscape, and what it means for humans to see the nature. As part of this work, flowers are placed in the background. The flowers appear to be blooming in a body of water.

By pressing heated glass against a plaster mold which was CNC-machined into the shape of a lens, a precise repetition of concave shapes was created on the surface of the glass. When water is poured into this artwork, the structure creates refraction, and the object acts as an array of lenses.

Designer : Yuko Sakamoto

Glass craftsman : Akihiro Kotera

Engineer : Yoichi Sakamoto

Corporation : TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF GLASS ART_Jin Hongo , TOYAMA GLASS STUDIO_Nadatani Ryuhei

Material : blow glass

Size : large W20cm x H30cm x D9cm / small W15cm x H30cm x D9cm