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. It became a metaphor for the universe and the incredible amount of energy that it contains. He could not longer think of clay, a form of earth, as an ordinary medium to be manipulated by the hands. Earth had attacked with overwhelming existential force, revealing itself as something that he could not control even if he threw his whole body against it.