Kimiyo Mishima's "Another Rebirth 2005-N" (2005) is exhibited along a narrow path by a pond about a 10-minute walk from Chichu Art Museum. The work gives viewers a fresh surprise with its motif of a trash can that suddenly appears just in front of the "Labyrinth of Cherry Blossom" designed by Tadao Ando,.

Mishima is an artist who became famous for her ceramic works depicting newspapers and comics. At first, she began by creating small works, but as her works grew in volume and scale, she began to worry that her creations would one day end up as trash (citation: "Kimiyo Mishima," documentary, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, original software, 2004).

In around 2001, she started using "molten slag" (glass-like powder made by firing garbage at 1,400°C) and "waste soil" as materials for her works, integrating environmental messages into her artworks. At the same time, in Naoshima, an intermediate treatment facility started operation to detoxify waste and polluted soil that had been illegally dumped on Teshima. Mishima read the article in the newspaper and became interested in Naoshima, which inspired her to exhibit her work on the island.

The Town of Naoshima has had a policy of community development that has continued since the 1960s, dividing the island into three areas, each of which is intended to be utilized in a different way. To the north is an industrial area centered on Mitsubishi Materials' Naoshima Smelter & Refinery. The center of the island is an educational area centered on an infant school and elementary and junior high schools, and the south is an area for development that takes advantage of the Setonaikai National Park. The Chichu Art Museum and Benesse House, which have contributed to Naoshima's reputation as an island of art, are located in this southern area.

When Benesse Art Site Naoshima received Mishima's offer to exhibit her work, it was just as the "Eco Island Naoshima Plan" had begun in the town of Naoshima, which aims to create a model community for a circular-based society. In order to make the most of the connection between the message of the artwork and Naoshima's new environmental initiatives, the artwork was to be exhibited at this location, which connects the northern part of the island, where recycling and other activities are carried out, with the southern area, where the art facility is located.

"Through the material of 'molten slag,' we can interact with the people of the island," Mishima said in her record at the time of the artwork's installation. "Another Rebirth 2005-N"
, a large trash can that suddenly appears on the side of the road connecting Chichu Art Museum and the central part of the island, seems to express with the artist's unique sense of humor, her vision of the future of society by looking at the island's industries and people's lives in its unique location.