Flower-Adorned Inkstone — Landscape Poem —

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."

As I make sculptures in addition to inkstones, I work with a wide variety of stone. This piece was inspired by landscape poetry, combining marble and slate, each with distinctive patterning. I have also incorporated the idea of arranging flowers in the water-drop reservoir, so depending on use it can create many different scenes and settings.