"Minnesota Rocks" which is International Sculpture Symposium in Saint Paul Minnesota USA was held on the 20the of May to the end ofJune 2006.
I am the first time to participate International Sculpture Symposium in USA.
I didn't take any tools which I have used in Japan, because I wanted to do my work in local situation. Of course I couldn't do my usual works, so I must consider what to do in Saint Paul. I could find two stones and I felt a kind of the pioneering spirit in this area.
I started to dig a hole in a limestone which shape is just same as natural stone which is very old (20 billion years ago) and very heavy also very beautiful stone.
Then I looked for very old pave stone and brick in this area, and I put old pave stones into a hole.
I thought I would like to express something between a human history and nature's memory.

I finished main work a little bit earlier. So I made a stray cat.
I like the feeling of stray cat and I have thought that "I would rather be a stray cat than a lion in a zoo.".