The brain, a huge network of nerve cells possessed by everyone, can be likened to the large-scale structure of the universe or the hypertrophied internet. We thought that those concepts could be extended to Indra’s net expounded in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, namely, to the concept of a southern mandala drawn by Kumagusu.

In this work, when a 360-degree camera detects a visitor, the image captured by the camera is reflected inside the work in real time, responding as if electrical signals were transmitted between the neurons (nerve cells). As a result, visitors will become part of the work and be incorporated into the sphere as if they were jewels in Indra’s net. By having the jewels and the real space reflect each other, a dynamic view of life is symbolized that “one is the whole, and the whole is one,” where the entire universe fits inside one jewel.