Tomoko Ninomiya exhibition Schwelle III -Anthology for Distant Heart-
Light an oil lamp
To see a fragile world
Through substance on a little pane
Like a floating nomad on a threshold
photo:Yuto Hirakakiuchi 2004
photo:Akihiko Iimura 2007
From visible vs. invisible, to normal vs. abnormal or good vs. evil, people are inclined to divide between opposite things. When the grounds for the divisions are different in individuals, an infinite number of borders must appear in the world....I try to give a 'projection' with a primitive machine. This is an installation in order to evoke the 'ambiguity of the threshold'. (Tomoko Ninomiya)
16 original paintings with words
16 projections with words
*Schwelle[Ger]n., threshold{Psycho}the level at which one starts to feel or react to something. According to R.Steiner, it also means the 'moment and field',at which one's consciousness steps into the super-sense-world from the sense-world.