©Ryo SHIMIZU

13th Art Division Jury Selections

CNJPUS TEXT

Still image [Japan]

SHIMIZU Ryo

Outline

This work is a “substitute” alphabet borrowed from existing kanji characters, and is assembled by a process of thinning out the elements that go to make up one character. It is a new character system that not only has characters of both phonograms and ideograms, but also accompanies a certain kind of bodily sensation perceived when figuring out the code. This character system also evokes time/memories from the origin of the world to now, and into the future.