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During a 1996 residency at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shigaraki, Japan, I created a series of bamboo, adobe and cement sculptures formed from fragments of casts of my body. The sculptures were inspired by the "kago" or open litters that were used into the Meiji era in feudal Japan. Two men would carry a person of the non-samurai class on long journeys, one at each end of the long bamboo pole. These pieces were installed along the hillside forest paths of the Park grounds above the studio and museum galleries.