FUJIKURA ASAKO

This work addresses the issue of the global supply chain (logistics) that involves the extraction and mining of resources from “other lands” and their transportation and distribution to “this land”—a process essential to the formation and maintenance of modern cities. The extraction of raw materials from the surface, underground, and biosphere is vital not only for energy and mineral resources but also for the development and operation of miniaturized electronic devices. These processes support both our physical and digital living environments.

The work consists of three murals. Two of them depict fictional landscapes, created with 3DCG, that show a panoramic view of an imaginary mining site. In these scenes, extracted materials are transported and processed into industrial products, gradually shaping the urban space. Scattered across these landscapes are ten pyramids that share the same texture as the mining site. These pyramids represent “projections”—condensed and materialized viewpoints—of imagined objects created using the extracted resources.

The third mural presents ten fragmented images, each observed by one of these projections. These projections exist as both material and information, reflecting the layered nature of perception and representation in this work.