I mentioned that I would be going to the digital public art festival last weekend and that I did. The most impressive piece was まばたきの葉 (mabataki no ha = wink or winking leaves roughly). Hundreds of paper leaves were scattered around the base of a high white tower. Each leaf had a picture of an open eye on one side and a closed eye on the other. We picked up piles of the white leaves and fed them into the two slots on the tower around chest height. The tower ate our leaves and blew them out from the top with a phffft! sound. The leaves floated down, twisting and twirling, winking to us as we craned our necks to watch them. It really scratched my itching to stuff paper into a tower that would immediately spew it back out. But I didn’t realize that I had this itching until after I experienced まばたきの葉.