Wrok's theme is earth and time.

The most important purpose is to feel a magnificent romanticism. Calculation is only a device.


Volume of 2000km
"One string" 1982 size:80cm(h)
One string has been wound up into a sphere which is 2000km length at this moment in1982.
I started to wind up from 1978.



column's pulan1-3


Column's pulan1-3


Column's pulan1-3
the planing 1980

Hiroshima Airport


pulan1-3
"Columns for a sphere / the Earth" - Columns to pierce the Earth. In this installation at Hiroshima International Airport each column sticks into the ground, pointing exactly at the lobbys of other international airports around the world.
Install point Google Map



limit of species
The small gear at the top of this mechanism turns 1000 rotations per minute. Each gear reduces the speed 10 times. The 16th gear is encased in concrete. It is turning to eventually destroy itself at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

primitive time

A mechanism for picking a second out of a thousand years.

primitive time-2
The Photo is one man show at the gellery Emon in 1996.
Each stone has been fitted a LED and a small computer inside and each Led and computer are counting each beat umtil 200 million times and then Every systems stop
The rope can be moved through the puzzle and will be free when it reaches the end, but it would take 70 million years to move the rope to freedom.
A person can see the exit and the path to it, but it is an exit only reached in 70 million years.
1976 size:90cm(L)

time puzzle
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