Our Stories: Connecting, Weaving My Story
We visited “Our Stories: Connecting, Weaving My Story,” a group exhibition by four female artists. The venue was Spiral Garden.
Andy Sayaka Yamamoto
Of the four participating artists, we focused on the work of Andy Sayaka Yamamoto.
After she began living together with her grandfather, who had dementia, Andy Sayaka Yamamoto turned that daily life with him into the project Eternal Story — a series in which she preserves fairy-tale books by candying them in sugar.
By using sugar-candying — a fragile technique of preservation that dissolves moment by moment — the work expresses both the frailty of her own power over memory and the inner conflict of not being able to stop wishing that memory could last forever, even while knowing this is impossible.
Yamamoto lived with her grandfather for three years, until his death in 2018.
She still continues to work on Eternal Story today, and it has become a lifelong project for her.
