C-DEPOT selection Exhibition Tao KAMIYA ExhibitionWeaving "w" Grasslands into the Cyber World with My Fingertips

Period: Sep. 3 (Thu.), 2026 – Dec. 5 (Sat.), 2026
Location: Corridor Gallery 27, Park Hotel Tokyo (27F)
Admission: Free

In Japan, the phrase kusa ga haeru (“grass grows”) is an expression used mainly online to convey one’s own laughter, functioning much like “lol” in English.[SP2.1] It derives from the visual appearance of the letter “w” — the first letter of warai (laughter) — which resembles a blade of grass. This exhibition breaks the phrase down into three components: the “emotion of laughter” that carries its semantic content; the “w key on the keyboard,” the physical property that gave rise to the word; and the “abstract concept of grass” used to describe the two elements above. It then attempts to reconstruct them as physical matter.