The Eyes of the Wind: Pocket Tour Book 2022―2024

This pocket-sized tour book sheds light on the previously unknown journey of "Eyes of the Wind," a traveling public art project that traveled to five countries—Georgia, Japan, Turkey, Greece, and Armenia—from 2022 to 2024, and allows visitors to enjoy city walks using the artworks as a starting point. The project's planner, director, and author is Yoshidayama, a curator and artist who works to build new relationships and create value between society and art through collaborations with experts and organizations from various fields.

"Eyes of the Wind" is a traveling public art project featuring 64 artists that Yoshidayama organized between 2022 and 2024, traveling around various "windows" around the country after the COVID-19 pandemic. The project name "Eyes of the Wind" is a reference to the fact that "window," the bilingual translation of "window" (mado) in Japanese, is derived from the Old Norse word "vindauga," which is a combination of "vindr (wind)" and "auga (eye)." With the premise that the artwork would be mobile, each artist was asked to create a work within the constraint of a minimum size of 5cm in height, 5cm in width, and 5cm in depth. The artists then carried the resulting works as their "eyes," searching for "windows" where they could be exhibited, and continued to move from place to place. Each "window" directly connected to the cityscape straddles the boundary between public and private, becoming rooted in the city as public art that can be viewed from outside.