ARTWORK

The Grammar of Silence
2025

3D-printed nylon resin sculpture with gold vapor-deposited finish,
Plastic umbrella, Japanese paper, Knitting thread
H2900×W2000×D5000mm

Inkjet print on Paper
H297×W420mm

The Grammar of Silence is an installation composed for the unsaid, the discarded, and the voiceless.
On the floor lie broken vinyl umbrellas, like those found on street corners after heavy rain.
Around them: torn black washi paper, tangled black cords.
They are remnants of objects once briefly needed—used, then forgotten— metaphors for the consumable lives of contemporary things. From the ceiling, black strings fall like lines of rain in an Edo-period ukiyo-e print.
Some bear delicate golden sculptures—three-dimensional sonographs, cast from the sound of raindrops hitting broken umbrellas. In this space, the rain that once fell on discarded objects returns as gold— abstracted, preserved, and suspended in stillness.
These gold pieces make no sound.
Yet they speak—softly, silently—of what was never voiced.
They form a grammar of silence, spoken by things we threw away, and perhaps, they offer a new language—one we’ve long forgotten how to hear.