Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects, 1991. Seven gunpowder drawings. Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as folding screens. These gunpowder drawings are, from left to the right, front to the back: Fetus Movement II: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 9 (1991), Rebuilding the Berlin Wall: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 7 (1991), Inverted Pyramid on the Moon: Project for Humankind No. 3 (1991), Reviving the Ancient Signal Towers: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 8 (1991), A Certain Lunar Eclipse: Project for Humankind No. 2 (1991), The Vague Border at the Edge of Time/Space Project (1991) and Bigfoot’s Footprints: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 6 (1991). Installation dimensions variable. Collection of the artist and various private and public collections
Installation view at P3 art and environment, Tokyo, 1991. Photo by Yoshihiro Hagiwara, courtesy Cai Studio
Bigfoot’s Footprints: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 6
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 640 cm overall
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Rebuilding the Berlin Wall: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 7
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as seven-panel folding screen
200 x 595 cm overall
Private collection
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
A Certain Lunar Eclipse: Project for Humankind No. 2
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as seven-panel folding screen
200 x 595 cm overall
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Inverted Pyramid on the Moon: Project for Humankind No. 3
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 640 cm overall
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
The Vague Border at the Edge of Time/Space Project
1991
Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as seven-panel folding screen
200 x 595 cm overall
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Reviving the Ancient Signal Towers: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 8
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 640 cm overall
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Fetus Movement II: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 9
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 640 cm overall
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Bigfoot’s Footprints: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 6
1990
Gunpowder and ink on paper, 24-page folding album
33 x 318.5 cm opened
San Diego Museum of Art
Photo by Wataru Kai, courtesy Cai Studio.
Open studio at P3 art and environment, 1991. Photo by Yoshihiro Hagiwara
1991
Coarse paper, tape, ink
619.76 x 198.12 cm approx.
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
North Pole
1991
Light, sphere, paper and rope
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
Earth SETI Base: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 0
1991
Coarse paper, ink, soil
Photo by Yoshihiro Hagiwara.
Mount Fuji—Air Pyramid
1991
Coarse paper, ink, acrylic
Photo by Yoshihiro Hagiwara.
Sketch on the Wall (Primeval Fireball)
1991
Coarse paper, tape, ink, paint
Photo by Yoshihiro Hagiwara.