Installation view of Japanese salt artist Motoï Yamamoto's new solo exhibition, 'Floating Garden', at Paris' La Galerie Particulière

说山本茂因自己的艺术而遭受痛苦是轻描淡写的。这位驻东京的艺术家花了25个小时跪在巴黎的LaGaleriePartire创作了他最新的作品“浮动花园”。他用一个带有窄喷嘴的塑料瓶，煞费苦心地“画”了数千弧形的盐-这是日本文化中净化和哀悼的传统象征-仿佛在“杜西埃杯”(deuxième galerie)的混凝土地板上繁衍开来。其结果是部分是弯曲的迷宫，一部分是藏语的“曼陀罗”。

日本人对盐的存在很熟悉。通常，它被放置在商店入口的成堆的地方，以驱赶邪恶的灵魂，在葬礼上的小径上，甚至在相扑比赛中。山本在他的妹妹24岁死于癌症后，将其作为一种媒介。这是他保存过去的一种方式。

他说，“用盐画，就像我记忆中的一丝痕迹。”记忆似乎随着时间的流逝而改变和消失。我所追求的是捕捉一个无法通过图片或文字获得的冻结的瞬间。“浮动花园是一张“精神地图”，它将无法言喻的、短暂的想法转化为更有形的东西。

同样重要的是艺术家完成的安装是冥想的过程和拆除每一个项目在其运行结束。在“浮动花园”推出前的周末，山本在巴黎H tel de Ville的挂毯画廊通宵工作，创作“迷宫”；这一过程向公众开放，作为努特·布兰奇(Nuit Blanche)活动计划的一部分。漂流花园在加莱丽·普莱尔(GalerieParière)开办课程后，他将清扫每一粒谷物，并将其送回大海，这一仪式突显了盐在生命周期中所扮演的角色。

令人眼花缭乱的白度和有机的能量给了漂浮花园一种引人注目的美丽和活力，掩盖了阴郁的概念。所以你眼中的泪水也是一种快乐。

The Tokyo-based artist spent 25 hours hunched on his knees to create the installation, using a plastic bottle with a narrow nozzle to painstakingly 'draw' thousands of arcs of salt. The result is part mind-bending maze, part Tibetan mandala

The Japanese are familiar with the presence of salt as an icon, often placing it in piles at shop entrances to ward off evil spirits. Yamamoto adopted it as a medium after the death of his sister at age 24, as a way for him to preserve the past

Yamamoto's latest exhibition is accompanied by additional photographs and drawings

After Floating Garden runs its course, Yamamoto will sweep up every grain and return it to the sea in a ritual that highlights the role salt plays in the cycle of life

The weekend before the 'Floating Garden' launch, Yamamoto worked through the night in the tapestry gallery of Paris' Hôtel de Ville to create 'Labyrinthe'; the process was open to the public as part of the Nuit Blanche programme of events

The artist's labyrinthine pattern begins to come together

'Drawing a labyrinth with salt,' he says, 'is like following a trace of my memory. Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by. What I seek is to capture a frozen moment that cannot be attained through pictures or writings'

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