Totem of HOPE

Ocean International Lantern Design and Exhibition Contest 2025

Date: January 18, 2025, to the end of March 16, 2025
Location: Vinhomes Ocean Park 2&3 – Van Giang, Hung Yen, Hanoi, Vietnam

ORGANIZER: OCEAN INTERNATIONAL LANTERN CONTEST COMMITTEE
Project team: Ryosuke Harashima and Nguyen Thu Hong
Collaborated: kojima Shoten and kojima-an
Special thanks: Mari Shimazoe

ベトナムで開催された国際ランタンコンテストのファイナリストとして、現代的にリデザインをした提灯作品を発表。 Totem of Hopeと題された作品は、自然の精霊がランタンに宿り、私たち人間を見守る柱となる照明彫刻。日本のアニミズム信仰をインスピレーションに、6つの異なる装飾を施した提灯を、四方を見渡すお化け提灯として表現した。

Presented the modern yet traditional Japanese craft as a finalist of the International Lantern Contest in Vietnam. The work entitled Totem of Hope is lighting sculptures in which the spirits of nature inhabit the lanterns and become pillars to watch over us humans. The concept is based on Japanese animistic beliefs, with six different decorated lanterns as haunted lanterns looking out in all directions stacked on top of each other.