• Title: Mogari
• Time: 01:00 (loop)
• Format: QuickTime Video
• Release: June 2008
• Location: Video: Ohaio(USA), Gatineau(Canada) in 2007 / Sound: Cully(Switzerland) in 2005
• Note: The Video in this page is the second version
• Collection: Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum (the first version)

This video work was commissioned by "Sguardi Sonori 2008". At the time, I was staying in a rural town in Mongolia, which was in the midst of a power outage that had lasted for more than three weeks.
During the period, electricity was available only for a few hours in the morning at the university and at the post office which also had internet access that needed to be rightly shared with everyone. Therefore, it was necessary to consider the minimum process for creating the work.
The minimum length requirement for the piece was 1 to 6 minutes, that was meant to be played on a loop as a video installation. So, I produced the work in a minimum requirement.

The version on this page has a second layer that was technically not possible to add in Mongolia because of the limited condition. However I consider it as the original version as the idea was in my mind since the beginning of the work.
The first version was simply a video of a colored forest in the northern United States, taken with a digital camera from a friend's car.

The source material for the sound is a recording of the wind blowing on or through a street sign. This kind of flute-like sound is called "mogaribue" in Japan. "Mogari" means a kind of irrational force, or a period of farewell to the dead in ancient Japan.
Strong winds were also the cause of the power outage in Mongolia.