Once, humans invented the ambiguous communication tool known as constellations to make sense of the countless stars and to communicate with them. I wonder, am I now able to see those stars as a whole, enough to create constellations myself? There is simply too much information to process in order to live.

The moving image uses topographical data around the Nagano Prefectural Art Museum from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, along with observational data on the actual positions of stars. By deriving new connections from constellations of various cultural traditions, and by viewing them from an extraterrestrial perspective, we come to realize that our constellations are merely constructs from our Earth-bound viewpoint. When facing information that lacks both certainty and limits, we must consider how far we are from it, in what direction we stand, and from which perspective we should engage with it.