Mr. Yasuda, a retired mathematics teacher, has always been fascinated by paleontology and geology. My visit to his Kyoto home in 2019 allowed me to observe his stone collection and view some of the places he has visited before.
»Containers can be enormous or tiny, open or closed, mobile or fixed in place, and their functions are also equally variegated. (...) In containing, they can conceal and so they create a world within that is separate from the world outside: a partly hidden inner world that can be extracted from the temporality of the outside world.«
Special thanks to Kazuyo Nakamura, Hirokazu Yasuda, Hiroko Yasuda and Miya Yoshida.