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Toll the new year's bell, inside the prohibited area
Toll the new year's bell, inside the prohibited area 2013-2014
Every new year's eve in Japan, people go to their local temples to ring the bell to exorcise all the negatives that had happened that year. Exactly when it turns to the new year's day, the sound of the bell echoes all around in Japan. However, probably the only place in Japan you cannot hear the bell gong is the area surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. In fact, since 2011, no new year's bell has rung in this place because nobody do not live in this erea. On new year's eve of 2013, we entered the area, sure enough, to toll the bell.
立ち入り禁止区域に除夜の鐘を鳴らしに行く (2013-2014)
福島第一原発そばの立入禁止区域。この場所の除夜の鐘はもう3年鳴っていない。 これからも鳴らないかもしれない。 大晦日、鳴らない鐘に向かって真っ暗な道を歩いた。 たどりついたさきで、除夜の鐘を鳴らした。
Infinitely Shifting Time
Infinitely Shifting Time(2014)
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The Earthquake in Tohoku in 2011 caused Tsunami that washed off everything on the shore. The fisherman's town and the port were torn down and made into multiple sandy beach. We scooped up the newly made beach with a metal detector to find those things left behind. We dug up the sand and found some accessories and house wreckages. We planted myosotis on the site we found those remains. The floral language of myosotis is " Forget-me-not".
「無限にずれていく時間」(2014)
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つい最近の事ですが、日本に沢山の新しい砂浜が出来ました。
漁港だった場所、住宅だった場所、色んな物を飲み込んだ
後に吐き出された砂は多くの物を埋めて浜になりました。
わたしたちは金属探知器を抱えて、それらを掘り起こす事にしたのです。
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" " 2014
In Japan, there is a forest called "Jukai" where hundreds of people commit suicide each year. In that forest, I came across a decayed body. Next to the body was a half-drunk carton of sake. The carton of sake was left behind, but their voices were not. Wanting to hear their voices, I made a postcard without an address from that carton.
「 」 2014
自ら命をたつ人が集まる森、樹海。そこにはたくさんの紙パックのお酒が残されています。残された紙パックから、残されなかった声を聞きたくて、宛名のないハガキを作りました。
Connected to something
Connected to something 2014
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At the foot of Japan’s symbol, Mt. Fuji, lays a vast forest called Jukai (Sea of Trees).
It's rumored that once you enter the forest you lose a sense of direction and can't fin d a way out. The forest is also well-known suicide spot. Those who are lost deep inside,set off for the final destination—death.
Wandering among thick trees many of them ask themselves whether they should go on or return.There are many ropes on the ground left by those who had thought of turning back.
We followed those ropes leading somewhere deep in the forest in hope they'd guide us to someone as in "hide-and-seek."
Hide-and-seek is a common children's game in Japan. One calls out "Are you ready?"
while others are hiding. They answer "I’m ready" if they are, or "Not yet" if not.
People waver between life and death in the forest, as if in "hide-and-seek." Calling out "Are you ready," we headed towards the heart of the forest. Deep in the forest we'd wait for an answer.
なにかにつながっている (2014)
樹海、そこは一方通行の森です。
奥へ奥へとつながるヒモを辿りながら、 隠れてしまった彼らを呼び続けます。 「もういいかーい？」
Rhythm of Survive
Rhythm of Survive 2015
While ago, I went to Jukai (The Sea of Trees by Mt Fuji) and found a person who hanged himself.I freaked out and screamed, "I'm so sorry" again and again.
I also said, "It's not your fault. It must be the outer world that has done something bad."
I'm not sure if what I said was right.But one thing for sure is that we still thrive in the outer world.
Later on, I brought the rope back in town and played rope-jumping with people. Some coudn't jump at all. Some avoided to jump. The other one was good at jumping, but at some point he suddenly stopped.
This is the survival rhythm for everyone.
生存のリズム 2015
このあいだ、樹海で首をつった人を見つけました。 おもいきり気が動転して「ごめんなさい」と何度も叫んで「君は悪くない、悪いのは外の世界だ」と必死に呼びかけました。
そのときの言葉が正しかったかどうかなんて分からないけど、わたしたちは今日もその外の世界で着々と生きています。
後日、そのロープを持って街中の人と縄跳びをした。一回も飛べない人、うまく飛ぶ事から逃げる人、順調に飛んでいるのに途中で突然やめる人。これは様々な人の生存のリズム。
Regeneration (Tentative)
Regeneration (Tentative)
Recreating the missing parts of statues destroyed in the war using light.
再生（仮）
戦争で破壊された仏像の欠けた部分を、光で再生する。
The sun in a palm
The sun in a palm (2015)
In 1991, the mural made by Taro has been demolished with the Old Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building where the mural was placed. The mural was embedded with the building, so it was impossible to save the mural by moving it. The sun that does not withdraw, looks like Taro himself. Although because of that, the sun was destroyed. In Toshiko's diary, it says right before the 'Wall of the Sun' was destroyed, Taro stroke the wall. That was an event happened five years ago before Taro died.
Today, we will evoke the appearance of the 'Wall of the Sun' on the day that was demolished. The sun that was broken by the power that cannot resist, is no longer the dead. Those shards can be our arms to resist.
We all, right now, need those kinds of arms.
Exhibited at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
手のひらに太陽を (2015)
コンクリート ペンキ スプレー
1991年、旧東京都庁に設置されていた太郎の大壁画は都庁の解体と共に壊された。壁画は建物に埋め込まれていたので、移動させて保存することができなかったのだ。なにがあっても一歩もその場を引かない太陽、というとまるで太郎そのもののようだ。けれど、それにゆえに太陽は破壊されてしまった。日の壁が破壊される直前、太郎は一度だけ日の壁を撫でたと敏子は記している。太郎が死ぬ５年前の出来事だった。
今、「日の壁」が壊されたその日の姿をこの場に呼び起こす。あの日、抗えない大きな存在によって壊された太陽は、今ここで抗う為の武器になる。私達には、そういう武器が必要だ。
岡本太郎記念館にて展示
The sun in the shadow
The sun in the shadow 2015
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Everybody knows 'Tower of the Sun'.
This tower is named after the "sun", but in fact the sun is drawn in the back of the tower. The 'Black Sun' on the back is so weird that it is not hard to imagine a powerful image on the front. Moreover its back faces north, and therefore this 'Black Sun' doesn't get the sun throughout the day. The 'Tower of the Sun' that put the 'Black Sun' on its back looks as if it were a human being that shoulders the despair. We and also Taro may have to shoulder this 'Black Sun'
Exhibited at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
日陰の太陽 (2015)
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誰もが知っている「太陽の塔」
太陽の、という名前がついているが太陽が描かれているのは実は裏側だ。表面のパワフルなイメージからは想像がつかないほど背面の黒い太陽は不気味だ。そのうえ裏側は北向きなので、この黒い太陽には一日中まったく陽が当たらない。日陰の黒い太陽を背負う太陽の塔は、まるで絶望を背負った人間の姿にも見えた。私たちも太郎もみんな、この黒い太陽を背負っているのかもしれない。太陽を一度も見た事がない日陰の太陽に、太陽を見せたいと思った。
岡本太郎記念館にて展示
Missing Sun
Missing Sun 2015
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The 'Sun of the Underworld' is missing because of the confusion of the demolition of the exhibit.
"Missing Sun" – is a strange phrase. Is there case that the sun goes somewhere? I asked the blind people who doesn't receive the light of the sun. "Do you recognize where is the sun?" They found the sun without any difficulty, just then the sun was reflected in their eyes.
行方不明の太陽 (2015)
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"行方不明の太陽"という言葉はなんだか不思議だ。太陽がどこかへ行ってしまう事なんてあるのだろうか。
私は太陽の光が届かない、盲目の人々に問いかけた。
「太陽がどこにあるか分かりますか？」
彼らは迷う事無く太陽を見つけ、その瞳には太陽が映っていた。
Needle and thread and
Needle and thread and 2016
Exchanging each others glasses and thread a needle. We sometimes are driven to desperation for like those things and help each other, how strange humans are.
針と糸と (2016)
お互いのメガネを交換して針に糸を通す。こんな ことでも争ったり、支え合ったり、人間って不思 議だなあ。
Flower XX
Flower XX 2012
Soil, Flower
Flowerbed was placed at the entrance of exhibition. It's width was as wide as the corridor.
During the a-month-long exhibition, 10,000 visitors stepped on the flowerbed.
In the beginning, people hesitated to step on flowers, but after the first person stepped on,they continued one after another. It gradually became a trail, then a waste.At the end of the flowerbed you'll see a notice saying,
"It feels like we are always stepping on something like a flower."
Flower XX （2012)
季節の花/土
エレベーター前に花畑を作成。花を踏んで通らないと展示室会に進めない。
今は花を踏む側かもしれないけれど
明日は踏まれる側かもしれない。踏めば踏むほど残酷さに鈍感になっていく。
The War of Us
僕らの戦争(2013)
薬莢
The War of Us(2013)
Bullets with slang frequently used on the Internet.
The meanings of these internet slangs are as follows
Hit it!!!!!!! (LOL)
Oh no,, I'm going to die (LOL)
Don't run away!
Can't run away!
Jesus!!!!
They're here! (ROFL)