This place was a hand-washing area for the gymnasium. It was a kitchen when Bikky lived there, and it has now been renovated.

It is a dark room. After visitors pass throgh the short, pitch dark passage, they find an artwork eisplayed on the left. The work entitled “TOH” is the only large - scale work of Bikky’s that remains in the villge. With water flowing in this room dominated by darkness and TOH illuminated there, can you hear something from the depths of the quavering water?

 

The cracked voice of Bikky says, “Hi. I’m glad you made it. Let’s drink.”

 

On Jan. 20, 1989, the “Contemporary Artist 89” series was held at the Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery in Knagawa prefecture. Bikky was already in a wheelchair. In the exhibition pamphlet, Bikky offered only one word: “Kiki,” the kanji for which mean “tree spirit.”

Perhaps Bikky was thying to communicate its meaning through TOH.

Jan. 20. 1989, was five days before Bikky would leave the would behind forever.