In the ℏ Series, silicon wafers (semiconductors before being cut into IC chips) are crushed and used as the primary material. Semiconductors were developed by applying phenomena and principles that emerge on an extremely small scale, such as those of atoms and electrons. Many of these principles defy human intuition and are vastly different from the everyday experiences and assumptions we can imagine. Through this paradoxical situation—where microscopic principles underpin the foundations of macroscopic society—the works aim to express both the strangeness of what constitutes the real world and the fact that human understanding encompasses only a fragment of it.

The motifs of the works often reference well-known physics experiments, particles such as atoms, or celestial bodies, all depicted solely with semiconductors. The rainbow-like structural colors of the semiconductor, which shift depending on angle and distance, are contrasted against a black ground to evoke a cosmic worldview, while the reflective resin surface captures the image of the viewer, situating humanity as being surrounded by the uncanny substance of the semiconductor.

The title includes “ℏ” (pronounced “h-bar”), a physical constant frequently appearing in quantum mechanical calculations. It signifies that in the real world there exist indivisible minimum units, symbolizing the peculiar physical properties of the microscopic realm.