The phenomenon, the overwhelming physical intrusion, that led Hoshino to treat clay as a brute physical substance rather than an artistic medium was a landslide that destroyed Hoshino's studio in 1986. 1 would like to quote at length from a text the aritist wrote the following year. To deepen relationships , find meaning, and build new order. A sudden catastrophe. A fact which cannot conceivably be removed from the world.
Disaster exists just as certainly as the coming of death.
People attempt to find words to describe the indescribable, death or disaster, and try to understand. However, there are facts that slip out from the edges of the words. People try to construct order while the chaos of the universe keeps on endlessly undermining it. Tokyo All of the subsequent developments in Hoshino's work go back to this. The landslide that swallowed up his studio in an instant changed his conception of earth as an objectified thing.