Monster Outside the Windows

During the animation process, many 3D characters accidentally developed shape-distorting bugs. The artist preserved these error states filled with bugs, printed the characters, and placed them on a blue backdrop. The backdrop features the blue screen text typically displayed when a computer encounters issues, representing a "wrong window," a prompt from the Windows operating system. The term "memory" in computing parallels human memory. The blue screen of death can be seen as a metaphor for human memory's intermittent rest. The continually bugged animation characters repetitively recite the Japanese text from the blue screen error message. The twitching, distorted crocodile, freed from its fate as an animated character, symbolizes the ritual of digital life achieving enlightenment. This twisted form resembles a gravestone, witnessing the disappearance of an unknown and mysterious digital existence. The blue of the computer blue screen also reflects the blue screen used in the film industry, a technique that removes the background and displaces objects from their original context. This work was commissioned by Koganecho Bazaar in Yokohama.