Situated in Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plants in Omaezaki,
Japan, the project tackles on an issue of our response to
unmeasurable force of disasters. On one hand, it provides a
rational apparatus to protect nuclear reactors from their total
breakdown in the case of tsunami and other disasters, but on
the other hand, its uncanny appearance – the form associated
with a pragmatic construction and Shinto religion, constantly
provokes a sense of fear for the impact of the disasters beyond
its hypothetical limit, especially in Japan that experienced the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. After a future
decommissioning of the reactor, the apparatus will perform as a
tomb that evokes the memory that deters the nation to depend
on the nuclear power generation again. The colossal structures
sitting in the sunflower field (as people believe sunflower can
detoxifies the soil) keep demanding people to remember
nuclear power generation – the ambivalent invention, in a quiet
yet impactful manner.
