Mieko Noguchi

Works

Five Elements

The “five elements” (Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Void) is the principle of equivalent transformation and spatial mobility happening by the energy of substance and power. It is the symbolic concept approaching the origin of continual change of all creation (the impermanence of all things). From a visible element such as phenomenon, regardless of it being organic or inorganic, all existence cannot be spoken of without a space being a collection site of the shape and form of substance and the connection of power and movement. A colloid (rubber form) glass which is in between the liquid phase and solid phase can only memorize the form of “Earth (solid/combination), Water (liquid/flux), Fire (energy), Wind (gas/movement), Void (place and location/inclusion) with temperature change. All existence is also restrained the freedom of shape, form. and position by the association of heat, substance, and power. The art work which formed the fundamental unitary of the impermanence of all existence in the moment when the restraint of the five elements beautifully manifest, appeals the fundamental principle of all existence to the audience.