Japanese Version

SHUSAKU ARAKAWA + MADELINE GINS

To be prepared for events of one billion years from now, enter here.

"Beginning," "past," "future," "I," and "you" are all words that have no place in this. They are Superfluous to the process.

Eternity is an ancient and foolish dream or construction.Learning how not to die is, of course,an entirely different matter. Step into , Ubiquitous Site , Nagi's Ryoanjj , Heart to learn how not to die.

In a veering, unbalanced balance, the person whose body moves as if magnetized takes identity as it presents itself, outside the body. Symmetry should be able to supplant identity and sure enough it can and does do this within the cylinder.

There in no single initiator of movement, such as the body was once felt to be, within the cylinder.

You have entered the cylinder, but immediately upon entering it you as initiator are nullified. One has lost one's bearing and no one's there to recover them, except, in a sigular manner,the cylinder perhaps.

The cylinder can sustain only one person-passively two if there are truly as if one -at a time within it. The cylinder makes a fair case for being the extent of the site of a person.

Within the cylinder, the body strikes the person it leads aroud by the nose as being more than ever completely the creature of its environment. The body loses its person to the cylinder or to the cylinder's symmetry. All objects, all surfaces and all gaps within the cylinder take turns at leading a person about by the body.

To find oneself to be a perfect fit with a man-made environment is strange, but not as strange, in the end, as the puppet-like body at large within this, formerly known as the visitor to the environment. For example, the rocks affixed to the cylinder's walls have a more familiar feel to them than do the unfindable images of these rocks that surface "in" the visitor.

Having passed through the preparatory chamber and been suitably biologically and mentally fatigued, the visitor steps up and out into the capsule of a perfect day that has been curled back around itself. Nothing but the big now....

The person whose initiating body in the big now is an amalgam of every millimeter of the cylinder together with every atom of the body that brought this person to the cylinder in the first place becomes a perennial virgin,for whom everything is new. For the perennial virgin there is no prior Ryoanjj. The cylinder's gardens are the originals. Everything within the cylinder is as ordinary as can be, tautly familiar, but no one who moves within the cylinder can be aware of this, once in the cylinder, all become perennial virgins for whom everything is brand new and original.

How can the placing of nothing new within a cylinder give rise to the big now and the perennial virgin? Position is everything. With all perceptual, imaging and architectural landing sites precisely locatable, unquestionably clearly situated, Kokoro can at last meet and completely surround and sustain kokoro and teach it how not to die... We have for a long time lived with and nurtured the strong intuition that symmetry, and symmetry alone, might be what could bring this about and, now, to our great joy,we find that it indeed has!

Complementary colors were used on the ceiling and the floor to cause the distance to blush into itself from time to time, but the big now has taken over and put them to a still greater use that clearly each must discover on one's own.

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