Glow of the Pass
Fumika I.
embroidery floss, seed beads
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In this piece, basketball is not the tool for winning but the medium to reveal the invisible work that the game demands. The beadwork not only tracks the movement, but it also transforms prespiration into a language of glittering particles, thus making the hard work visible. What is usually rubbed away or overlooked becomes the very force that determines the ball's flight. The throw is stopped when each bead shows an incredibly small labor gesture, each change from one color to another a letting go of the energy. By making prespiration valuable, the artwork piece becomes a means to display athletic motion as the work of an artistically yet tough and physically controlled movement in space. The piece is a call to the viewer to discover the invisible marvel of the human body's mechanics and the way the giving of oneself leaves a trace long after the ball has gone.
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For me, creativity is a process of hearing the unheard and seeing the hidden patterns in the most usual and usual things. It is the challenge to trail an idea that is not even half formed, to change an emotion to that which can be felt by others.
