Stick empathy arose from Kinoshita's dog "Gina" who was so "inginious" that she looked for bigger and bigger sticks in the forest, and brought them to Kinoshita to impress her. After the death of ginious Gina, the artist made a memorial in the form of a large branch, and wrote an ode to the dog, that she sings in two voices. A kind of crossover between a Karaoke performance and a Laurie Andersen song. During the opening, Suchan Kinoshita did a performance, during which she clamped the stick between her jaws during the length of the song that was played by means of the speaker next to the stand.