Touch the forest, touched by the forest.

This is a document about the relation between human beings and nature in the Japanese medical facility. Most of the mental hospitals are strictly closed. Therefore, patients feel more stressed while in the hospital. And because they have very limited exposure with healthy individuals, it creates misunderstanding with each other. Nature offers healing. Well-kept woods can calm the minds of people and make it difficult to distinguish between patients and medical staffs. And it’s a perfect place for people to interact with one another. Connecting space of humanity and nature. Coexistent of space between healthy individuals and patients. ‘Touchable forest’ is a place where these two elements are melded and has a potential to help the understanding each another. I have documented the hospital trying it. This work, designed for exhibitions, is laser-burnt on the Japanese oak wood pieces for touching the warmth of nature.