Around Japan is an installation in an iron frame of 250 × 160 × 250 cm, made for Fieldwork and Sculpture Work at Hof van Coolhem in Puurs (1998). Overhead hangs a photograph of a Japanese sky on a transparent support; underfoot lies a photograph of Japanese ground, with a glass bowl of water in the middle. When the visitor steps in, a small television screen beneath the bowl switches on, and in the water the face of a Japanese girl looks back.
Joannes Késenne wrote that the visitor who comes to look into a mysterious hollow in the ground finds that he himself is the one being watched: the distance to the Japan of our imagination becomes the subject of the work.
