By joints and connections
This box, with its ambiguous boundaries,
It is a masterpiece of architecture.

Like the joints and connections in Japanese architecture,The box divided into parts is exquisiteThe hexagonal object inside is designed to be a part of the puzzle. When you slide the long side left or right, the internal organs are cut away, revealing the hidden parts, and when you unfold it further, a mysterious three-dimensional space appears, resembling a modern building, a train, a steamship, or perhaps even the beginning of a story.

Koizumi Aya's masterpiece «The mechanism within the mechanism I» The idea behind "The Inner Mechanism of Mechanism I" was born from my encounter with the joints and connections that have been used since ancient times in Japanese wooden architecture without the use of nails.BoxThis is where the quest to put it all together began.

External shapes and internal shapes. Think inside, think outside, look inside from outside,Looking from the inside out.He says that a work can only be born from this struggle, this back and forth.

From his early works in which structures were placed inside boxes, the boundary between inside and outside became increasingly blurred during this period, and he created works that intentionally incorporated "signs of a story beginning" such as stairs and bookshelves. Moreover, the variability of the box, in which multiple stories can emerge depending on how it is unfolded, evokes the flexible space-time of a book, whose contents can also be changed by the reader.This would develop into the "Overlapping Boxes" series.


Text by Kenya Nakazawa (FRAGILE BOOKS)