Injurious Inertia 1, used butcherユs uniforms, TV, VCR, wooden construction, H330xW220xD220cm, 1998, Southern Alberta Art Gallery / CANADA
 
These bricks made of compressed used clothing embody the psychological repression from the daily lives of today. Moreover, the enactment of stacking bricks connotes the ceaselesslabor expended in the name of Industrial Expansion in Japan. It seems that the more you work, the more oppressed and victimized you become.
 
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