How does someone get to know a place? The people, the landscape, the culture? The work involves sampling the town of Yamanouchi in both literal and metaphoric terms.   The land, as well as, the people are cored and displayed as a collection of geological, physiological, and psychological specimens.  These samples are also reflected in the aesthetic responses of the drawings, paintings, and sculptures.  The work encourages the viewer to not only respond to the immediate artwork, but to venture and gain their own experiential knowledge of the area.  For those who are native to the place, a reminder of the gifts that are so often swept under the rug of the mundane.  The challenge of the work was to incorporate both my site visits and interaction with the locals and create work that was complimentary to the visionary architecture of Kurokawa Kushio.