Apicturetellsa thousand
words...orinthiscase,
hundredsofthousandsof
characters!InherUniverseof
Wordsinstallation,architect
andartistEmmanuelle
Moureauxhung140,000
multi-colouredhiraganas–
oneofthreemaincharacter
setsusedintheJapanese
language– tocreatea vividyet
tranquilinstallationata Tokyo
exhibitioninJuly2019.
DuringtheJapaneseTanabata
festival,peoplewritetheir
hopesanddreamsoncoloured
piecesofpaperandhang
themonbamboobranches.
Emmanuellereimaginedthis
traditiontocreatea swaying
worldofwordsusingnothing
butpaper,threadand
100 differentcolours.
DESIGN:EMMANUELLEMOUREAUX
PHOTOS:DAISUKESHIMA
...DIFFERENTLY
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