Resonance – Atami(Atami, Izu Peninsula, Japan)In a corner of a valley on the Izu Peninsula in Japan, where the mountains... Read More
Resonance – Atami(Atami, Izu Peninsula, Japan)
In a corner of a valley on the Izu Peninsula in Japan, where the mountains come right down to the sea, I stretched a radiating net spanning some fifty meters and let a cocoon float at its center. The threads reach toward the trees and the slopes of the valley, and their form is entrusted to the nature of this place. Resonating with wind, light, and gravity, the countless threads weave relations between things and invisible forces, making manifest the undulations of a valley that had seemed empty, and the life latent within it. The egg-bearing cocoon at the center is an archetype that evokes the origin of life, while the whole, its threads radiating outward, calls a spider's web to mind. Upon the web, death nourishes life, and at times the parent spider becomes nourishment for new life. It is a microcosm of the cycle of life, a place where self and other dissolve into one another through love. Shifting their vantage, gazing from the roadside or passing beneath the net, viewers come upon the living relations the threads bind together. To make the work, I used a drone as a device for spinning thread, weaving the lines into the air one by one. Bringing nature and technology into harmony, the work quietly intimates that life is something held within an immense web of relations.
Resonance – Atami(Atami, Izu Peninsula, Japan)
伊豆半島の山が海まで迫る谷の一角に、全長50mに渡って放射状の網を張り、中央に繭を浮かべた。糸は樹々や谷の斜面に向かって伸び、形はこの場所の自然に委ねられている。無数の糸は、風や光、重力と共振し、ものと見えない力とのあいだに関係性を編むことで、空虚に見えた谷の起伏と、そこに潜む生命性を顕在化する。中央の卵を孕んだ繭は、生命の根源を彷彿とさせるアーキタイプであるが、そこから放射状に延びる糸との全景は、蜘蛛の巣を喚起させる。蜘蛛の巣の上では、死が生を養い、時に親蜘蛛は新しい命の糧となる。それは、生命の循環の縮図であり、自他が愛を介して溶け合う場所である。鑑賞者は、沿道から眺めたり、網をくぐるように視点を変えながら、糸が結ぶ生命の関係性と出会う。制作には、ドローンを糸を紡ぐ装置として用いることで、空中に一本ずつ糸を編み込んでいった。本作は、自然と技術を融和させながら、生命を無数の関係の網のなかに在るものとして静かに示唆する。