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drawing from below, Yokohama (photo by Andrew Yang)
KAMI: Hair / Paper / God, 2010
ink on paper
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------275” x 40” unrolled
Though written using different characters, in spoken Japanese the word “kami” is a homonym that can mean hair, paper, or a Shinto spirit-god linked with natural forces. In this case it refers to all three: 髪／紙／神. This site-specific drawing was created in response to the Ooka River flowing beneath my apartment window during a residency in Yokohama, Japan.
The drawing is a bodily gesture: a waterfall or river of human hair connecting the river outside with the human-made spaces of the city around it. As it moves through the interior and exterior spaces of the building, KAMI invokes the larger-than-life spirit of the river goddess Benzaiten, and suggests a supernatural presence linking ancient tales of Heian-period royalty to contemporary urban Japan.
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