Camphorwood H580×W350×D340mm This work was created by carving a camphorwood tree produced in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, from a single tree with no joints. The humorous shape of this work looks like a creature that has come ashore from the sea. Lekoa is a Botswana word for "foreigner," but etymologically, it means something that was "ejected" from the "sea. In the distant past, when Africans saw foreigners coming to Africa from the sea in large boats, it must have looked as if the people had been ejected from the sea. The name was chosen because of the mollusk-like shape of the sea.
