Untitled
1999
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK
Projected light onto slope
Identity in place? (monograph), Cristina Crossingham
“‘Screen’ was a four day international event at Bruce Allan’s studio in Gloucestershire during July 1999. When darkness fell in the deep valley, Aoyagi projected a motionless circle of light onto a sloping grass bank. ‘Untitled’ 1999 was a technically challenging piece with a deceptively simple outcome. Since a circle of light projected onto a slope will appear as an ellipse, a mask was made to redress the distortion, so that a perfect circle fell to the ground. People wandered in and out and around the circle, they sat inside and they looked from a distance, it became a place for sharing and interaction. Under a bright moon hanging in the true darkness of the rural night sky, this was a thing of wonderment.”
