In Breath of the Spirit, Chiharu Shiota ties tangled red yarn to 600 pairs of worn out shoes from people who no longer wanted them and makes them appear to walk down the building by themselves.  According to the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Shiota’s work “simultaneously imparts a fear of death and the vigor of life through ordinary objects that we are completely accustomed to seeing—it is this ambiguity that makes the works so enthralling.”

In Breath of the Spirit, Chiharu Shiota ties tangled red yarn to 600 pairs of worn out shoes from people who no longer wanted them and makes them appear to walk down the building by themselves. 

According to the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Shiota’s work “simultaneously imparts a fear of death and the vigor of life through ordinary objects that we are completely accustomed to seeing—it is this ambiguity that makes the works so enthralling.”