Clam and the Sun follows robots who worship the sun, ultimately sacrificing themselves to supply uranium to a nuclear power plant — an allegory born from the artist’s personal reflections on Japan’s post-Fukushima reality. Inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, the work merges spiritual longing with technological ritual. Like Ikezoe’s other works, the animation is governed by poetic associations: here, the sun is both a celestial body and nuclear symbol, robot and relic, faith and fallout.