A
garland is a typical decoration that adorns a Japanese celebration. As a grand
celebration of the opening of a store or event, it is usually sprinkled with
colorful and lively ornaments. However, as the Japanese lifestyle has become
more sophisticated with the times, the poisonous glamor has been shunned, and
it has disappeared. In this work, the beautiful but disappearing culture of
celebration is reconstructed in a new style using waste materials. In Japanese "Hare",
"Ke" and "Kegare" are folklore words that divide the
Japanese lifestyle into three categories. 'Hare' means situation that auspicious
weddings and festivals, 'Ke' means daily life as its antonym, and scenes that
do not belong to the two are called 'Kegare'. "Kegare" generally
reminds us of "inpurity", but it also means that the daily life (Ke)
withers. Waste materials are something that have finished its role in daily
life, but in this work, it was turned it into an object of prayer that solemnly
wishes for happiness as a garland that colors the day of "Hare"
again, so that it can be blended into modern daily life by using white used
carpet.
