These pieces of art were realised by borrowing the possessions of those I personally knew who had past away, and directly making cast models of them by metal.  Metal has widely been used for religious rituals. Although it has occasionally been used to represent the power of the authority in the past, it has at the same time maintained its catalytic aspect for approaching the sacred realm.   Personal belongings of the deceased are special objects for the left relatives and acquaintances. They are not for those that passed away, but rather for filling the holes in the mind of the left ones. By transforming the possessions into something with semi-permanent durability using the historically egoistic and spiritual aspects of metal, our ego and sense of respect for the death was made into two sides of the same coin. While I do not necessarily consider doing this to be right, I do feel beautiful sorrow towards such sad egoism and respect for the death.  In order not to forget the metal objects used to belong to the dead, their bases were made of the ashes, which were produced by burning some of these belongings, and this made the object constantly coexist with the sense of death. Metal’s eternal glare and ashes’ momentary and empty aspects were both essential to this work.