Tsukkomin: Headfirst into the Earth
地球に凸みん
| Year | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Materials | Body, white tights, earth, sky, gravity, straw |
| Location | A field in Toride, Japan |
| Format | Performance / body work (photographic work) |
I plunge headfirst into the enormous sculpted mass that is the Earth, and stand inverted. It is an attempt to synchronize my body with the planet's rotation and connect with the world at a planetary scale.
This is not land art. Rather than manipulating land as material, it receives — through the body — the memory of the place, its relationships, even the flow of gravity: an inverted practice of land acknowledgement. The handstand overturns our taken-for-granted relationship with gravity and shakes the very ground of our point of view.
Our positions are fixed by invisible frameworks: the gaze of others, social systems, urban structures, the rhythms of daily life. This work departs from such human-centered axes and seeks to resonate with a planetary sense — gravity, the Earth's axis, its rotation.
A white body, owning nothing, simply standing straight. To "tsukkomu" into the Earth is to step actively toward what cannot be seen — recovering, within an everyday landscape, a sense of connection to the direction of gravity, the turning of the planet, and scales of the world we rarely notice.
