The narrow inside space, multiplied and complicated by mirrors, evoke a sensation of sublime terror, an alteration referring to a puzzling infinity itself created to destabilize conventional spatial habits. Mirrors become an instrument to create illusion and, at the same time, to unmask it. Since the public can easily see themselves reflected in a false infinite – thus discovering the illusion – the problem becomes the latency of perception.

A translator of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf into Japanese, Sagawa Chika was born in 1911 in Hokkaido, Japan. When she died from stomach cancer at 25, her poems were collected and edited by Itô Sei and published as Sagawa Chika Shishû ("Collected Poems of Sagawa Chika"). Sawako Nakayasu's first book, So we have been given time Or, was selected for the 2003 Verse Prize.