Flower-Adorned Inkstone — On the Crag —

The word 'suzuri' (inkstone), written with 'stone' and 'see'.
What is the true meaning behind the shift from the original 'ken' to 'suzuri' (inkstone)?
Do we look at the stone, are we looked at by the stone, or do we see through the stone?
The "Tenka Suzuri series," named after the phrase "kinjō tenka" (adding flowers to brocade), is made to double as both an inkstone and a flower vessel.
What kind of inkstone would accept gestures other than grinding ink? I dream of a new relationship between "stone" and "seeing."

The material for this work was gathered in Scotland, developed in a style that makes the most of the natural form of the raw stone, known as tensei suzuri (a naturally shaped inkstone). Its wellspring of inspiration is that land's vast terrain, its steep rocky peaks, and the raindrops that soak into them. The interior of the work has been hollowed out.