Sunday 4 April 2010




Karesansui is usually a dry landscape. In Hakodate, Japan, it seemed like a beautiful way to use the local conditions of winter - a lot of snow, but not enough for building large ice sculptures. A field of snow can be decorated simply by stomping with one's feet. I made this work over two days in early 2007. The originator of this karesansui idea was Wada Shihomi, and this photograph was taken by Mitsudou san and featured in the Hokkaido Newspaper.