Out of Disorder (Cosmo World)
アウト・オブ・ディスオーダー（コスモワールド）
- Birth Year
- 1975
- Death Year
- -
- Date
- 2011
- Technique, Material, Format
- hair, dust, cloth
- Dimension
- 20.0 x 14.0 x 13.0 cm
- Category
- Sculpture or Three-dimensional Work by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2011-SJ-001
Iwasaki Takahiro creates three-dimensional works that look like grand landscapes, but that actually consist of small objects such as toothbrushes, towels, and pencil leads. To create this work, which depicts the Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris wheel in the Minatomirai district of Yokohama, the artist used strands of his own hair. It was made in 2011, when the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered the shutdown of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, which supplied electricity to the Kanto region including Tokyo and Yokohama. As power shortages struck, the lights of the Ferris wheel were turned off. The delicacy of Iwasaki’s tiny Ferris wheel highlights the vulnerability of the city, dependent as it was on power generated in distant Fukushima.
(KIMURA Eriko)