SYMBOL「通」, 2025
In SYMBOL「通」, Sashie anchors his floating sphere with the character 通, a sign that in Japanese conveys movement, passage, and connection. Here, it functions almost like a fossil of the city’s invisible arteries — the streets, networks, and circulations that once animated an entire urban ecosystem. The sphere itself, composed of patched metals, faded panels, and fragments of anonymous architecture, becomes a drifting archive of lost trajectories.
The glowing presence of 通 suggests that even in ruin, a residual flow of memory persists. It is the memory of a city that once breathed, a civilisation defined by its passages: commuters, conversations, traffic flows, and the ceaseless movement of life. Suspended above a wasteland of debris, the sphere preserves one last symbol of connectivity. What is “passing through” here is not a person, but time itself — carrying with it the ghosts of urban experience.
Sashie transforms this character into an emblem of continuity amid disintegration, a reminder that connection survives even when structures collapse.