Her voice became the rain
Scenographic installation / 2026
Something about that scene stayed with me, not because I related to it directly, but because it stirred a quiet, nameless feeling.
This project is a scenographic and installation-based interpretation of a moment from Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. I’ve chosen to explore the soft and the abstract, parts of myself I don’t usually express. It’s a deliberate choice: to challenge my perspective and to honour the fragile, dreamlike atmosphere that lingered after reading. Positioned between scenography and installation, the project invited the audience into a sensory experience shaped by the emotional complexity and saturated mood of this scene.
A Quiet, Charged Moment
The project takes its point of departure in a scene from Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood: Naoko’s twentieth birthday, spent with Watanabe in her apartment on a rainy April evening. What stayed with me was not the event itself, but the silence surrounding it, the vulnerability between two people, the things they cannot articulate, and the feeling of something slowly beginning to fall apart
Materialising Memory
The structures are made from fabric soaked in glue, draped over forms and allowed to harden before the original support is removed. What remains is a fragile, translucent shell, an imprint of something that is no longer there. Together with repeating rain, sound and shifting light, the material became a way of exploring memory itself: preserving the shape of a moment while allowing its substance to disappear.
