For some reason, I found myself writing down conversations overheard on trains. I gathered those faint, hard-to-catch voices into scrolls and placed them inside a paulownia box.
23SPEACHBALOONS
2010 / 焼和紙、刺繍糸、桐箱
和紙を焼こうと思った。 焼け跡は吹き出しのようだった。
I decided to burn sheets of handmade paper. The burn marks resembled speech balloons.
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言葉や記憶だけが、桐箱の中に残る。
Only words and memories remain inside the paulownia box.