In our continuous pursuit of design exploration, B/A commissioned local Landscape Architect and artist Keiji Asakura to design and complete an installation in its Houston office. The project, the first of a planned series, took several days to complete. The current installation is part of a rotating series of pieces planned for the space. A three-segment, 40-feet long by 8-feet tall wall connecting both studios is the canvas for the planned installations.

Within the installation is the intertwining of the conscious and unconscious. The black line represents a moment of clarity and a resting of the latent intellect as one becomes self-aware. Field sketches produced by the mind take shape. Carved volume and skin counter-point inner and outer layers concealing the visible and revealing the invisible – twisting the expected and predicting the unexpected. Frozen thought processes are linearly expressed beyond the levels of accepted perception within a two-dimensional depth of field.

“It’s about cosmic noise or about what is not touched by the noise. The dark is defined and flat or the dark is deep and indefinably endless. Thoughts and ideas are obscured in the noise or suspended and supported by the noise”, Keiji said.

Installation media was created utilizing digital projection of graphical elements to be traced on, masking tape of varying widths, crayon, oil stick, chalk, china marker, and glossy fixative.