Suo-Oshima (周防大島)

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A flag is part of the landscape not only its representation. The mandarin orange street goes up to the hill where Miyamoto Tsuneichi used to hike to contemplate the embrace of the horizon. The movements on an island are never linear. One can ascend a mountain (if there is any) or circumnavigate the cost, the straight horizontal trajectories are rare on small islands. The essential shape of movements is the circle and its axis. Either clockwise or counterclockwise our circulation brings back to the starting point, the bridge, where the island connects to the mainland. More deep inside, along a waterfall, there is a stone sauna, ishiburo (brother of mexican temazcal). Here water and fire meet to heal the body and purify the spirit.

Suo-Oshima 2010

online resources:
en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Suō-Ōshima,_Yamaguchi
fr.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Tsuneichi_Miyamoto