After an hour riding, I arrived at the port in Teshima via Naoshima. It was just a small port, but the local view of rural old private houses and the scenery of countless small islands during my travel from Takamatsu to Teshima were very beautiful.

In the mountain on the island, a glass monument was installed in a pond. This is “Tom Na H-iu” by Mariko Mori and it was a mysterious piece like the meaning of the title “the place where souls waited to pass to their next life” in an ancient Celtic lore. This transparent work is networked to the observatory and it emits a light when a neutrino is detected. Ideally in the twilight or night was a good time to enjoy the light but there are no hotels in the island where has not accepted any tourists so far. So, in the daylight, the monument was standing well mannered in the pond which was covered with water plants in a dense forest.

“Sea-Song of the Subconscious” is a sound installation by Cameron Robbins from Australia, consisting of a pipe organ on the seawall that produces sound by rhythm of waves and tides. The irregular sound made visitors smile. With this work, you could spend slow time with the island’s view, rhythm of waves and tides, and sound of the organ.

I took a walk in a small village and could not ignore a stone-built warehouse. Olafur Eliasson‘s waterfalls made a small rainbow in the dark warehouse. The small pale rainbow in the chilly warehouse that may have been the same for a century provided us to feel the simple beauty of the light itself.

A new art museum was opened in Teshima at the end of the art festival. It started to prepare new permanent contemporary art projects such as “archive of heartbeat” by Christian Boltanski from France. The island, which used to have no art, is now getting to change into something new. The view of art works standing solitary in a rural scenery was a picture of “before development”.