{"product_id":"st350bo2899","title":"Archē series “Luntra”","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 phantasmal beast-like being that crawls along the ground. Once-held memories of living in the sea have transformed into this black form.\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\u003eW275 × D160 × H265 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":49232573694203,"sku":"ST350BO2899","price":220000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/4745\/3947\/files\/bownd-st350-1_b0904b8d-7052-47ef-bf9c-c7260fe59339.jpg?v=1787927925","url":"https:\/\/www.b-ownd.com\/en\/products\/st350bo2899","provider":"B-OWND","version":"1.0","type":"link"}