{"product_id":"st346bo2895","title":"Archē series “Eyedra”","description":"\u003cp\u003eArchē\u003cbr\u003e- A Fossil of Memory, a Quickening Being -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs people live, they become covered in countless \"memories\" — culture, belief, values.\u003cbr\u003eBefore you know it, your own existence has been shaped by layers of such memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the work, what appears once those things are shed away,\u003cbr\u003eIt explores a universal, primordial memory that lies deep within humanity, beyond individual memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe clay I use is the accumulated trace of countless lives upon this earth, and\u003cbr\u003eIt is also a sediment of memory.\u003cbr\u003ePlacing my hands on the clay, conversing with the unconscious,\u003cbr\u003eScooping up faint fragments,\u003cbr\u003eThrough fire, its existence is fixed into this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis series of acts is the excavation of fossils of memory,\u003cbr\u003eit is also a matter of looking anew at human beings as living things, and living anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchē (arukē) is a Greek word meaning “beginning” or “origin.”\u003cbr\u003eBut the “beginning” I am exploring is not only a point of origin that existed in the past, but\u003cbr\u003eIt is also the beginning of existence, found only after casting off something once ingrained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live without even being able to choose the outline of our own selves.\u003cbr\u003ePrecisely because of that, before culture and value become attached,\u003cbr\u003eIsn't there meaning in contemplating life itself?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is a fossil of memory, a being that quickens within.\u003cbr\u003eTouching the memories that lie dormant within each viewer,\u003cbr\u003eA device that prompts you to reconsider who you truly are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e＜The Origin of the Name＞\u003cbr\u003eA perceptual being of strange form, possessing multiple viewpoints. Its head, with red and green spheres set to left and right, symbolizes the division and integration of sight, perception, and consciousness. The name derives from \"Eye\" plus \"Hydra\" (the many-headed mythical creature).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSakai feeds images of his finished works into an AI, then adopts, as the work's title, a coined word the AI generates from that visual information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eArtist\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTomoya Sakai (Aichi)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eMaterial \u0026 Technique\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStoneware Clay\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eDimensions\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eW215 × D255 × H320 mm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eYear\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"酒井智也","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49232573563131,"sku":"ST346BO2895","price":220000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/4745\/3947\/files\/bownd-st346-1_d09f0585-c25a-43bc-802c-d2a74515ee05.jpg?v=1787927908","url":"https:\/\/www.b-ownd.com\/en\/products\/st346bo2895","provider":"B-OWND","version":"1.0","type":"link"}