"Focusing on this difference, the artist has, since 2016, continued a practice of dynamically forming characters using springs, strings, bands, and chains, and is now working with "needles." In Japanese, the same character 針 is used for both the hand of a clock and a sewing needle, as both are sharp, linear objects. The act of using them is also expressed with the same word sasu: one "points" to time and "pierces" fabric."
"This work consists of four black rectangular units reminiscent of bookshelf speakers. The front of each unit is covered with black knit fabric, and inside each one are seven custom-built linear actuators. The sewing needles used are small, 38 mm in length and 0.7 mm in diameter. Normally retracted, they extend forward through the fabric when driven by a signal."
Twenty-eight sewing needles emerge and retract through black knit fabric to visualize the passage of time, shifting between point and line to evoke analog and digital representation. The needles exploit a dual nature: a tip reads as a point while a side reads as a line, enabling reversible display behaviors. Subtle misalignments cause needles to tilt and lie against the fabric, producing organic growth-like motion. Four black rectangular units house seven custom-built linear actuators each, with 38 mm by 0.7 mm needles driven to extend through the fabric. The piece blurs distinctions among sign and matter, discrete and continuous, analog and digital.
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