This video piece, whose palindromic title translates as the “bamboo grove burnt”, takes the viewer through an unusual exploration of a bamboo forest.

Using circular movements of camera, various video effects and a minimal sound track, it immediately creates a hypnotical sensation that invites the viewer’s thoughts and memories to come and go freely. Similar to meditation, it may require concentration to stay focused on the subject, the esthetic surface of the images and sound.

Sometimes the video echoes with itself like a mirror, or accelerates brutally, other times, external images slowly emerges before going back to the bamboo scaffoldings. These like-in-a-dream effects give an organic feeling to the vegetal world, and the depicted world becomes like an internal place, one’s own secret takeyabu.

While viewing the piece, the meaning of the title is there, floating as another disturbing factor: Why and when did the bamboo grove burn? Maybe, this is simply a different reality with its own logic? A mix of harmony and darkness, the reflection of life as a set of interleaved layers, where, while we think we are walking toward a goal, all we do is turning around ourselves and actually palindromically end up where we started.