WORKS /
The Unknown Senses
Adoka Niitsu, Kasha Katuwe (tent rocks)
Photography, New Mexico, USA, 2014
Phase 1
Phase 2
Adoka Niitsu, The Unknown Senses, Installation, 2015
Lithograph works printed with lime stone, Piece of lime stone, Color thread, Video Projector, DVD, Speakers, Fan, Size variable, 2015
Adoka Niitsu, Si, Installation, 2015
"Apache tears" (Obsidienne) with a feather of bird founded at Kasha Katuwe (tent rocks), New Mexico, USA
- Opal, Glass, Mirror, Woodbox, Motion sensor lamp
- Silicon wafer - plate of Semiconductor, TMS370 Microprocessor (produced in 1997 by Texas Instruments), Two microscope images of microchips on silicon wafer (Photo by Steve Emery, ChipScapes TM)
Installation view of Adoka Niitsu's solo exhibition "The Unknown Senses" at Galerie Hors-Champs, Paris.
Phase1: February 7 - March 1, 2015. Phase2: March 14 - 3 April, 2015.
Photograph and Video by © Adoka Niitsu
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24th August 2014
Trip to Santa Fe in New Mexico. I visited at “Kasha-Katuwe”, meaning 'white cliffs’, named after an American Indian word. After climbing up severe slopes through layers of volcanic curious shaped rock, I enjoyed a view from the top. The sky was so blue, clouds were floating like islands, it reminds me painting of Georgia O'Keeffe. At the same time, I was thinking about there is a place of first atomic bomb test site over this beautiful view….
There, I found many small obsidian stones of volcanic glass. They are called "Apache tears" derived from the grief of the Apache tribe who lost their lives in battle, and it is said to help people overcome their sorrow of loss.
My thoughts were started to linked to memory medium. Such as "Trinitite," artificial glass stones formed when sand is melted by atomic bomb tests, and silicon wafers for semiconductor used in computers, which are made from silicon obtained by melting sand...Progressively, my thoughts involved the long timescales of materials on the earth and their ability to remember.