SABO

As the pandemic changed our perspective on everyday life, we learnt the existence of “SABO (=erosion control)”, which tells the story of the complex relationship between nature and man-made objects, through a cement factory in Toyama that we met during the other project. The factory tackles environmental issues by using urban waste as fuel and mixing waste materials into cement. Also, SABO made from concrete shows the conflict between nature and man-made object. As a city dweller, we have been exploring the relationship between nature and man-made objects through the material cement from three different perspectives.

”Maplanter” - Thinking from proportions
A pair of planters that represent the proportion of natural and man-made objects on the map as three-dimensional objects.

“Void” - Thinking from an intentional awareness
A series of flower vase in the shape of a group of concrete buildings. By arranging plants in the gap of vase, I want people to consciously feel the contrast between controlled and uncontrolled nature.

“Sensory stone” - Thinking from intuitive and perceptional experience
A sundial with no scale for more intuitive, sensory and perceptional experience of time (nature).

AtMa inc. is a creative studio established by Makoto Suzuki, an interior designer, and Ayumi Koyama, an artist. The studio has three axes - client work such as; interiors, products, installations, creative directions,  and self-initiated projects on social issues, and also running their own space, COM - each feed into the other and enable them to investigate deeper exploration and multiple perspectives. Currently working on material experiments related to self-initiated projects.