Hot Bed I : used clothing, red dye, green house, plants, water, earth, air, H230xW175xD350cm, 1998, Utsunomiya Museum of Art / JAPAN

Several kinds of plants are planted in used clothing, which recreates strata in a greenhouse. "Hot Bed" has both the literal and positive meaning of an enclosed seedbed, which nurtures plants, and the negative meaning of the underside of society, which breeds violence and crime.

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