Write a book,
Binding a book,
Build a book.

This work was inspired by a passage in the book "Atlas" (original: Atlas, 1994) by Michel Serres (September 1, 1930 - June 1, 2019), a leading French philosopher and writer: "There are many appropriate distances within a house."

The cloth-covered box has a sliding acrylic lid, and when the lid is closed all the way, the title of the work, "Vom sinnvollen Abstand und dem notwendigen Zusammenhalt (About Meaningful Distance and Indispensable Connections)," appears.

The entire work is a reproduction, in the form of a book, of the floor plan that the artist imagined after reading Atlas (originally published in 1994). One book is placed in each room, and the book placed at the entrance to the house (Eingang) contains the German phrase that inspired the work: "There are many appropriate distances in a house." For example, the book goes into detail about appropriate distances in a living space, such as "The kitchen and dining room should be close together, and the toilet far away," and "The distance between shelves should be within easy reach." The books in the other rooms contain text and illustrations of furniture suitable for each room, along with their dimensions.

The technique I tried in this work is the idea of the book as a comprehensive art form, which began with William Morris.In "The Ideal Book"Influenced by the line, "If you ask me what the most beautiful art is, I would answer a beautiful house, followed by a beautiful book," I have been thinking and prototyping about the relationship between "houses and books," and by extension, "architecture and books." In this work, I use a two-dimensional floor plan as the axis, and embody the depth of space and the third dimension with a "book." Recreating the inside of a house that people live in inside this book, which is much smaller than the human body, is equivalent to building a book, just like building a house.

To write, to bind, to create a book. I have a feeling that the number of verbs following "book" will continue to increase, starting with "build."