The Silent Watcher, 2026
3D printng objects, site variables, and online video

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Two fallen branches, once suspended and turning in the wind, were found by chance during a run in a public park. Their physical presence has now been transformed into data through 3D scanning and rematerialized as a printed object, precisely fitted into the public board space in Kanazawa. Alongside the object, a QR code invites viewers to access video traces of the branches’ former life—an anonymous gesture, a fleeting moment, preserved in digital memory.

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This work explores the cycle of disappearance and reappearance: from organic matter to digital archives, from chance encounters to public displays. The branches, no longer alive, embody the paradox of “死んでれ ばこそ生きて”—only through death does life become visible. By situating the object on a communal board and linking it to its past via a QR code, the piece asks how memory, technology, and public space can extend