The basic concept is the same as Disc. Used iron tools are collected, heated, beaten and stuck together. This was repeated over and over again, resulting in a parental piece to the Disc.
Shaped like a vinyl record and player. This time, the motif is not only the recording medium, but also the playback equipment all together. The ability to actually see the needle picking up sound is an attractive aspect of record players. I put that kind of visual enjoyment into the object. The tone arm was taken from a Technics SL-20 turntable. The simple, intrepid design contrasts well with the gory disc: it’s old from the 70s, but shiny and clean!
What this player plays is not music, but visuals. So instead of a cartridge and needle, a magnet and loupe are mounted on the end of the arm. It can be moved freely and snapped on the place as desired.
The disks look like fossils, like you’re excavating them. Thanks to the loupe, you can clearly observe the fine textures. Recently, I sometimes feel like, ‘Is this… my presbyopia?’ but this is a gentle specification for me too.
A little mischief.
I’ve put a loupe on the disk, so I’ve stamped various words on the disk with small engravings.I made two TIME PLAYERs at first, and the one with the green label is imprinted with words related to the weather.
The blue label artwork is typed with some words related to emotions. If you purchase the artwork, we will engrave additional words of your choice.
The base is Indonesian marble. The stone type Brownie Grey is polished and finished.
There are A and B sides.
Remove the screw in the middle and you can disassemble it like this. Turn the disc over and install it, and enjoy the B-side.
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A kicker for the viewer to expand his or her image. Perhaps the reason I feel this way these days is because the interpersonal distance has been removed by Corona. In the past, it was easy to receive nuances of things from people and each other’s facial expressions and find kicks to expand the image, but now it is difficult to read and convey facial expressions through a mask and through a screen. I wonder if this is partly due to the fact that we are now seeing more and more situations where people misuse the wonderful human ability to imagine, and develop bad imaginations through misunderstanding. (Is this a story about the world or the work, or both?) In order to overcome such frustrations in communication, I am trying to keep the ‘periphery’ in mind. Striking iron itself is the same now as in the past, but the way it is presented changes according to the times. In the case of the last DISK, it was the CD case, and in this case it was the player. I hope that the elements attached to the periphery will become hints and that more people will expand their imagination from the mysterious flattened iron object. (This is a story about a work of art.)
