This is the second work in a series that utilizes the video feedback phenomenon with liquid crystal displays and projectors.

In this work, a large monitor was used to ensure sufficient projection distance for the projector. Furthermore, by changing the monitor's orientation from vertical wall-mounted to horizontal, freestanding, it became easier for people to stand between the monitor and project their hands and arms onto the screen. The video content was also re-edited to rotate around a central axis, allowing viewers to approach the monitor from any direction (as in the previous work, half the screen remains blank). This also contributes to more pronounced amplification effects through video feedback. Within this, the increasingly complex lines give the image a sense of depth. Additionally, red dots are placed across the entire screen, flashing and moving beneath the lines, creating the illusion of depth and encouraging people to reach out. As a result, the hands people raise are as if they are absorbed into the video, creating an experience of being immersed within the image. Here, the live aspect of this work extends beyond the self-contained nature of the video, involving the surrounding audience and creating an even greater sense of liveness (≒ a work created through the feedback between the audience and the work).

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In this work, the piece stands on its own even without interactive elements with the audience, and the room for the audience to immerse themselves in it blurs the line between the image and reality. While conventional films tend to fix certain attitudes on people, this work can be said to be one in which people can react relatively freely. Through this free action from the past, the appearance of the vortex of light that appears before our eyes continues to change moment by moment. The light that continues to shine in a dimension that seems attainable yet elusive is both a longing for an unseen future and something that is undoubtedly created by the accumulation of the past.

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August 2017: Works exhibited at Musashino Art University's Midsummer Open Campus.