Suga Kishio was among the most important artists in the Mono-ha (lit. “School of Things”) movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He positioned natural objects such as pieces of wood and stones, and materials such as metal and paper, in spaces in an almost unprocessed state, referred to resulting scenes as “situations” which he presented as works. Here pieces of wood are fitted in a frame, like a puzzle, some of them “protruding” upward. Typical of Suga’s work, it enables close examination of relationships among objects and relationships between the objects and the surrounding space through subtle interventions by the artist.