Untitled, 2006. Yoko Inoue. Dimensions vary. Ceramic.
I see this work as a corruption of buddhist ideals. Although these shapes are pleasant enough, they are unmistakably casts of plastic drink bottles. The coin slots reference the keeping and storing of money, want, desire, attachment as well as pollution ( the pollution of the mind, unclarification.). These are the things which keep one from enlightenment. I feel that Inoue is making a comment on the western ideals of mass production and consumerism and how these things effect eastern spirituality. Money spent on water which comes free from a body of H2O.
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