目上の人

interactive sculpture

The way you speak to someone shows your social position, whether your companion is superior to you or not. Words and word choice has weight, showing this social difference. In Japanese, there is a phrase - 目上の人 (the person who seems above) – to describe this divide and social balance. Viewers can interact with this piece by selecting different “words” (stones) for each head to speak, creating their own social hierarchies and balances.