Waiting for sprouting

2002.9.21-29, 9 days performance, earth, a pumpkin seed, a miniature green house with CCD and a miniature bulb, monitor, video recorder

Even if you have seen the birth of an animal, surely you have never seen the moment of birth of a plant with your eyes.

Yamashita and Kobayashi decided to share the painfully slow stream of time with a seed until the moving moment of sprouting.

They chose one pumpkin seed, put it into soil on their palm, and kept waiting for its germination day and night for 9 days by rotation. The seed was planted on September 21, 2002, and it sprouted on September 29.

EXHIBITION

2025 Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

2024 IAMAS, Gifu, Japan

2002 Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride Campus, Japan