Key to Nakahashi's first Bay Area solo exhibition is the newly commissioned: Kaiten—a World War II Japanese torpedo outfitted to accommodate a lone Kamikaze pilot. In his studio this autumn, Nakahashi painstakingly photographed the entire surface of a toy model Kaiten at 1:32 scale producing more than 20,000 photographs. These images will be assembled, with Nakahashi's oversight, in Camerawork's gallery during December and January to create a 50-foot simulacrum of the infamous "suicide submarine." Nakahashi’s work can be situated within a framework of relational aesthetics and social pratice. As the photographs of the miniature are only pieces of the artwork, they are corollary to their subsequent assembly/interaction of artist and viewer/participant. It is essential to Nakahashi’s art practice that the construction of this piece be done in the gallery, during the exhibition, with as broad-ranging a cross section of volunteers as can be organized.