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LED devices used in the project represent the eternity of life. They asked 3000 people mainly from the areas affected in the 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake to set the speed of the LED display to create this piece.

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- Japanese sculptor and installation artist, whose work often uses digital LED counters
- His work is primarily concerned with the function and significance of time and space, especially within the context of Buddhist thought.
- Believes the digits one through nine embody the Buddhist philosophy of change and renewal, while zero represents the moment between life and death
- Miyajima is a multimedia artist, but his media is actually the number system and time

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Counter Gadgets do not show 0 when they count from 1 to 9. This represents the time of human life. It symbolizes life when counting and death when it goes dark reaching 0. This cycle goes over and over again. This is what is called ‘Samsara’ (Metempsychosis) in Buddhism, symbolizing eternal life.
Each Counter Gadget has different counting speed. By changing the counting speed, Miyajima portrays the life of people with disparity in race, religion, language, skin colors, and in culture. The work is shown as if all these ‘Time of Life’ showers down from the universe.

Miyajima wishes to express that people with diverse backgrounds living together and encountering in this very moment; the miraculous harmony of life in this world of ‘Irreversible shower of Time’.

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The many LED lights on the ceiling represent time, human life and the stars. They count from 1-9, with 0 being darkness. This is a metaphor for  the eternity of human life; when it glows and counts, it means "life" and when it goes dark at 0, it means "death." The LEDs repeat it, but all count at different speeds. But they will all work together in harmony to create a mysterious and beautiful piece of music.

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https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.arts.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1002/pchj.354
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