Artwork: Mother, earth, teeth
Artist: Kioto Ota
Location: Joan Fuster avenue/ Cinturón Verde (Green belt)
Date: 2001
The artwork “Earth, Mother, Teeth” comes from the idea of the earth as the mother of life. Life is born on earth and returns to it. If the earth has a face, then the stones are the teeth in the earth’s jaw. Placed open at two angles on the green grass dunes of the Green Belt. Its height is designed so that people, especially children, can play on the sculpture or sit on it or touch it with their hands. In fact, when the sculpture was placed in the Green Belt (with the help of a crane), children immediately began to play and climb on it. A special feature of this work is that the author, Kioto Ota, sculpted it in situ on the Green Belt during the 1st International Meeting of Public Sculpture in 2001, which was directed by Joan Llavería Arasa. The sculpture functions solely within a balanced relationship between the sculpture and the site.