Mt. Fuji
Since ancient times, it has been an object of faith,
a source of art and stories that has sustained human imagination.
In the modern era, it has come to be loved as a symbol of Japan,
while also being consumed as an icon.
By dismantling this fixed image,
we turn our attention to the subtle signs of time as it shifts.
3,776.17
A single, precise number—its updated elevation.
The human impulse to measure nature through observation,
and the human capacity to receive change through sensation.
A symbol that allows precision and fluctuation,
fact and feeling, record and poetry,
the universal and the fleeting
to coexist in the same place.
Particles of light, the density of air, the drift of color,
signs of the seasons, the edges of shadow—
a faint tremor just before the world changes.
And the subtle warmth that lingers only in moments without sound.
May a new landscape of Mount Fuji
be quietly inscribed within your mind.