「The Origin」シリーズを制作するとき、私は数枚の写真から山の部分だけを切り抜いて組み合わせていきます。その作業の後には空の部分が残るのですが、その空の写真を使って、2019年に新しい作品を作り始めました。
「空 / Relativity」では、これらの写真がレイヤー状に組み合わされています。この作品の中に山そのものの姿を見ることはできませんが、切り抜かれた空間によってその存在が表されています。生命の源を表す山の不在と存在の両方の意味を持つこの作品は、無であり有でもあるという意味で、仏教思想の「空(くう)」の概念を示してもいます。
「The Origin」が生命の根源的な姿を表しているのに対し、「空 / Relativity」はあらゆる生命の存在に対する問いを投げかけています。
Since 2019, I started making new works utilizing the remaining images of the sky that had been left over after cutting out mountains in “The Origin” series. In Japan, the kanji (Chinese character) for sky also represents the concept of “ku” or “emptiness,” which is an important Buddhist idea denoting the notion of “relativity,” of both being and nothingness, negation and affirmation, denying any universal thoughts of right or wrong.
In these works, I place the cut-out photos on top of each other to form layers. The most important thing during the creation process is to cut the photos as precisely as possible so as not to revise the form of nature. This is in order to preserve its beauty and also to show my reverential awe towards the natural world. Although I use a digital process, my policy is to ultimately collage and cut the images by hand. This is because I believe that manual work still has great power even though digital techniques have highly improved nowadays. I construct my work through both my physical experience and hand labor.
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2023
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2020
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2019
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2020
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2020
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