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Aokigahara/Nara is a two channel video installation that documents two places in Japan. The video pieces are installed in separate spaces with a door to connect them. In the installation of the piece, the viewer enters the first room that shows the video Aokigahara and then moves through the opening that connects the two to see Nara. Two reclaimed wooden benches provide a resting place for the viewer.
Nara is town famous for its many Shinto shrines. Around Nara, vast forested areas have been protected as the home for the kami, or spirits of the shrines. Nara is also known as a ”power spot”, a place of intense positive energy. According to legend, one of the mythological gods who founded Nara arrived on a white deer. Since then deer have been considered divine creatures and roam freely under protection of the government. |
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