Cleansing Box : used clothing, coal tar, wire mesh, H210xW225xD220cm, 1997, Utsunomiya Museum of Art / JAPAN
The piles of used clothing, dyed black with coal tar, suggest a coal seam, or a huge piece of charcoal. In the way that activated carbon cleans the air and water, the carbon box made of used clothes filters the stream of human history.
