The witnesses (Fukushima 1)

I left the anger. I just wanted to express empathy. So I looked for the most delicate medium, inspired by Ikebana, Sumi-e, and a childhood memory dear to me: Peter Vogel's cybernetic sculptures. I had to learn. It took a long time. Long enough that, of all the things I thought I wanted to say, only about thirty words remained, articulated by three witnesses.

Thunder stood there
Inside silence
and ignorance.

The three "witnesses" are two-metre-high metal monoliths borrowing from the aesthetics of kakemonos (Japanese vertical posters). Each "witness" will be the support for a very short text relating to the erosion of risk awareness and its consequences. In front of each Japanese calligraphic text (on white panels) stands an electronic sculpture. The lights and sounds these sculptures emit illustrate the text in a symbolic way. The aesthetics of the circuits, whose components are directly soldered together, are graphically reminiscent of sumi-e. These three "witnesses" are narrators. They evoke the catastrophe through text and stylized evocations. The lights and electroacoustic sounds they emit (parasites, rattling and more or less random rumblings) complement each other to form an asynchronous choir.