Tiny Tree, Apt.
2025
Cherry, Fabric, 5 x 3 x 3 inch

What if there was another world within the world we live in? What if they were simply too small for us to perceive?

I often used to imagine tiny people. These were thoughts I frequently had. One moment while walking down the street, I noticed a large knot in a tree. The ants crawling on the tree and the dense texture of the wood grain made the tree look like a space inhabited by living creatures. At the same time, I wondered what tiny humanoid creatures living inside that tree might look like. I created a rotating, five-layered box, and this box felt to me like the living space of the tiny creatures inside the tree. In particular, the shape, where the same type of space was repeatedly stacked, reminded me of an apartment building.

To show the lives of the small creatures, I used boxes with open tops to draw the living spaces of each ‘apartment’. I meticulously depicted the different characteristic living scenes in each room, viewed from above. The doors drawn in each room are connected to a central, fixed cylindrical shape, which I saw as serving as an elevator, the means of transport for the creatures in each room.