On-Kawon

On-Kawon

2011
loop video 1’30, suspended plexiglas sheet

If a branch seems to be blocking the frame, can it be broken?

According to an apocryphal etymology, in ancient Japanese On-Kawon meant to break, to break, to open, but also to disobey or even to destroy (a previous order); because of its proximity to the Sino-Japanese root Kabatsu, the term also means to institute, to establish a beginning, to renew an origin.