Treasure Island  2004
There was a forest where insects such as stag beetles lived near my house when I was a child. When I went into the forest to seach for them,　I entered an immense world full of mystery and I was constantly in awe. One summer, I came home from Tokyo while I was a university student, and a barrier to prevent landslides in the forest was being constructed. The mossed face of the mountain was cut　,the trees were beaten down, and a power shovel strode in an arrogant manner. I was suprised at that time, that it was a very small space.My memory and my experience had been in a a huge and deep forest. Now the forest was levelled and the red earth was bared. Something that had seemed immense was reduced to a small red square. In that forest the world had quickly become small. People often say “ the world has become small” The spatial expanse that people can feel is quickly limited. In exchange for the material richness of modern civilization that people seek,what people have lost is immense.

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