GW5505 – Robot with a hot spring
2008
Wood, Japanese paper, adhesive sheet, fluorescent light
East-Naruko Hall
Naruko Hot Spring Music Festival “NARUKYO”
Naruko, Miyagi, Japan

This installation was produced and exhibited for an electronic music festival in hot spring village. This is a development of the work which motif is grain of wood. The light box with wood grain pattern represents a wooden robot that emitting light was installed in the old hall. If the robot was made of metal, it would be corroded by acid of hot spring water.