SOTOROJI #1

A sotoroji is the garden path to a tea house. Unlike a regular path, it is a spatial device incorporating Zen spirituality to enable one to dust off the impurities of the secular world in order to enter the higher dimension of chanoyu, considered as a spiritual diversion. Chanoyu can be seen as a ceremony to separate ourselves from the everyday and enter the spiritual world, through the act of drinking tea and the setting.
The TEA-ROOM, an art collective that seeks to pursue a contemporary form of chanoyu, uses modern objects to represent the spirituality, objects and processes that form the world of chanoyu.
Capitalism is the personification of the secular world. QR codes are one of the technologies that lead us into the Internet space that occupies this. This work enables us to jack in through a QR code, then, by this space recalling something important that was driven to the edges of the capitalist space, providing a ceremony causing us to forget the affairs of secular life, making this a decentralized point by which to transform the world into a sotoroji.