Keiji Okushima

"Like a living light... I wanted to express the eternal radiance of life in my glass works. The part that looks like it's inside is hollow, and the part that looks hollow is the solid body of glass. That's how I see it. It's like an inverted world, transcending time and space... Our lives are something like that, too. That's why glass is fragile. The internal structure is not well-aligned. Sometimes, works cannot be created without applying heat, so there is energy hidden within. If you melt everything in the world, it will become glass, so it's a fundamental material that allows you to experience the earth." - Keiji Okushima