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Transcend Section
3 / 2004
Tatsuo Miyajima
Transcend Section
2005

The LEDs I used on this occasion form digits that count down from 9 to 1, and repeat the countdown without displaying zero, symbolizing the Buddhist concepts of the eternity and radiance of life. The LEDs are laid out in grid fashion, centered on the museum entrance and extending out to the pavement and streets to entice passersby into the museum. The arrangement of the lights however remains grid-like and connected with the museum entrance, a layout suggestive of sections of different kinds: partitions, divisions, classes, zones. But because the LEDs move and change, the sections open and close, suggesting a "harmony of life" that goes beyond sections per se. Art must not be limited to closed spaces. Nor should people or societies be closed. This work aims, as the title suggests, to transcend such sections.

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