コロイドディスプレイ

This work continues the artist's exploration of the relationship between material and image. The ethereal images that dimly appear on the soap film's surface are created through ultrasonic vibrations that agitate the transparent thin film, combined with the light from a projector. This is a material yet imperfect image of a butterfly that glows organically. Transparent thin films like soap bubbles cannot normally project images because they transmit light. Here, ultrasonic waves rapidly diffuse the light. This work exists at the intersection of material fragility-disappearing at the slightest touch-and the unique condition where ultrasonic vibration and light meet on a film less than one micrometer thin. The piece reconsiders video as a medium of sound and light, pursuing more material-based image expressions. It is a medium that spans between reflection and light, low and high resolution, liquid and solid, transparency and diffusion, material and image. The aesthetic sensibilities of yūgen (profound grace) and sansuimei (mountain-water clarity). Our media consciousness that finds beauty in the gap between the subtle and the certain, between high and low resolution, has continued since the mid-Heian period. We desire vivid expressions created from ephemeral materials.