AME

MIXED MEDIA+SOUND

Exhibited at Gallery CONTRAST, Japan
June 11, 2022 - June 26, 2022

An acoustic painting painted with actual rainwater and water-soluble paint on acrylic light-guiding panels and attached with vibrating speakers.

When two sounds overlap, the phenomenon of one sound drowning out the other is called the masking effect. The sound of rain has brought silence to a bustling city through its masking effect.

The average annual rainfall is more than twice the world average in Japan due to a temperate humid climate, and the Japanese people have lived with the blessings and disasters of rain.
The Japanese people have sensed the subtle emotions of rain in their daily lives, and it is said that there are more than 1,200 Japanese expressions related to rain.

Matsuo Basho composed a poem in 1687, and there is a phrase, "The May rain is cutting the hoop of the bucket, the sound of the night.”
The phrase expresses the silence night as a scene where the hoop of the bucket is about to be broken by the accumulated rainwater.

Since ancient times, rain and silence have been inseparable.

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