素材が素材であった前の物語。
それは質量であり存在であり命そのものであった。
KATAMARI
Spiral
date 2011
size インスタレーション
technique 固める
material 様々な繊維素材
人はモノを作る生き物である。人は石という自然物を石器に作り替えたときから、モノ作りの衝動は今日まで続いてきた。世界にある様々な自然物はモノ作りの衝動大いに揺さぶり、それに伴い生活も豊かになっていった。そして繊維との出会いも人の生活をがらりと変えたモノの一つだ。自分の身体を守るものは皮膚しかなかった人間は、木や草、毛皮などの繊維との出会いのおかげで皮膚をまもる第二の皮膚とも言うべき衣服というものを手に入れた。自然の動植物から素材を作る。それはとても軽く薄く、そして細く伸ばしたりも出来る。様々な性質を持つ繊維の存在は人の創造力を駆り立てたに違いない。そして今日僕らは先人達の作り上げたモノの世界で生きている。自ら作らなくても難なく暮らせる時代だ。しかし、モノに溢れた快適な世界を得たが失ったものもある。昔、人と自然はモノ作りというラインで繋がっており、決してその二つは離れない存在だった。人間の進化とともにモノを作るということも合理化され、自然物そのものだった素材は、素材は素材でしかなくなってしまった。その為、自然と人との距離は広がってきてしまったように思う。この作品では、雑草の繊維からTシャツからまでの素材を固める事で、再度モノとして浮かび上がらせる事が目的である。素材が自然物そのものだったことに思いをはせながら、繊維一本一本を再構築していったモノである。
A story before material has been material.
It was mass, existence, and life itself.
KATAMARI
Spiral
date 2011
size installation
technique harden
material various fiber materials
Humans are creatures that make things. Ever since humans made stone tools out of stones that are natural thing the urge to make something has continued to this day. Various natural things in the world have driven the impulse of humans to make something, and along with that, life has become prosperous. And the encounter with fibers is also one of the things that changed human life profoundly. Humans, who had only the skin to protect their bodies, acquired clothes that can be called a second skin to protect their skin thanks to the encounter with fibers such as trees, grasses, and furs.Making materials from native flora and fauna. It is very light and thin, and can be stretched thin. The existence of fibers with various characteristics must have driven humans’ creativity. And today, we live in a world of things created by our predecessors. We live in an age where we can live easily without making our own.However, even though we acquired a hospitable world full of things, we also lost something. In the past, humans and nature were connected by the line of making something, and they were existences that could not be separated. The process of making things has become more rationalized along with the evolution of humans, and materials that used to be natural things have become just materials. For that reason, I think the distance between nature and humans has been widening. In this work, the purpose is to stand out the things as things again by solidifying materials from the fiber of plant weeds to the T-shirt. These are works that I reconstructed each fiber one by one while thinking that the materials had been natural things.