This year’s work sums up my creative experience so far in Nakanojo. The rising salt crystals over time visualize a vector that opposes gravity. From observing nature I thought about the power of life. The glass shards evoke a sense of sharpness and pain as well as their transparency and beauty, focusing on the transformation of consciousness that can occur through experience. The work, which is a journey of two inseparable and contrasting matters, their relationship, and the thought of what transcends them, is connected to the celestial bodies and their center, the sun, and tells the story of the individual as the universe.