【Sculpture】Sekika

Hiroki Ishikawa's "Sekika" is on display in Arakawa Park.
Explanation of the work
In the process of creating this work, I first observed that rocks are material cut out from mountains as large square masses, and I wanted to open one up. Although normally rocks cannot be opened, I started to think that if I faced the rock sincerely and struck it, the rock would open up for me. I used the blooming of flowers as a motif for this opening, and there's a reason for that as well. Rocks are heavy, hard, and difficult to carve, but they also survive in a form that provides evidence of ancient people's existence to the next generations. This is a distinctive feature. They are a semi-permanent material that allow us to see that. For this reason, I felt that making a flower out of stone would allow flowers, which usually wilt and decay quickly, to survive in the same form.