The document describes an art installation focused on how cancer cells can disrupt cellular communication and spread rapidly. The installation represents how a perfect system of communication in nature can be infiltrated by cancer cells, which take over communication pathways and spread quickly. It also depicts how human activity can affect and shape nature, as seen in a branch wrapped in eco-friendly plastic.

1. Museum of Osaka University
Exhibition may 2015
“Capture the moment”
!A perfect symphony. Catch and become caught. Each
thing in its time. Life is a movement. A circle… a life cycle.
A web can be like a disease. It can infiltrate and take over…
spreading in a very fast speed. Stopping every movement.
Freezing the moment.
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It is all about life. The cycle of nature -
around and within us. How nature are
communicating. How our cells are
communicating to keep the body healthy.
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Everything are constantly sending out and
receiving messages/signals. But what if a
cell fails to send out a signal at the proper
time? Or what if a signal doesn't reach its
target? What if a target cell does not
respond to a signal, or a cell responds
even though it has not received a signal?
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These are just a few ways in which
communication can go wrong, resulting in
disease. In fact, most diseases involve at
least one breakdown in cell communi-
cation. This artwork are focusing on how
nature are depending on a perfect system,
and how cancer cells can disrupt this
communication, how they can infiltrate
and take over the communication and
spread in a very fast speed.
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“Wrapped in nature”
!The human effect on nature.
Melted, wrapped and shaped by human hand. Spinned like a
spiders work. Precise and dense. Thin threads are connecting
the branches.
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A stick from a tree is wrapped with white eco friendly plastic.
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