MIRAI MILKY WAY

MIRAI MILKY WAY (GreenFes, Grand Green Osaka, Japan)

In a green plaza newly opened at the heart of the city, I made an installation that takes the Milky Way as its subject. Borrowing a gesture from Tanabata, the Japanese star festival in which wishes are written on slips of paper called tanzaku and hung out beneath the summer Milky Way, I loosely strung together bands of mesh, each differing in color and length, and gave spatial form to the countless wishes turned toward the future. Shaping, in three dimensions, the curve of every strand and the gradations of color across the whole, I sought a work that shifts from moment to moment as it takes in light and wind, holding within it something of the intricacy and beauty of a starry sky. Over the course of the exhibition, cards inscribed by visitors own hands were tied on one by one, and the work grew denser by the day. Each wish set down came to rest beside those of others, and within a run of only three days as many as 1,800 of them had gathered to raise up a single Milky Way.

MIRAI MILKY WAY (GreenFes, Grand Green Osaka, Japan)

都市の只中にひらかれた緑の広場に、天の川を題材としたインスタレーションを制作した。願い事を短冊にしたためる日本の七夕の所作を借り、色も長さも一枚ごとに異なる帯状のメッシュを緩やかに連ねることで、未来へ向けられた無数の願いを空間化した。一筋一筋の曲線と全体の色彩の階調を立体的に制御することで、光や風を受けて刻々とうつろう様相を作り出し、星空の複雑さと美しさを宿すことを目指した。会期を通じて、訪れた人々の手で記されたカードがひとつずつ結ばれ、作品は日ごとに密度を増していった。書きとめられた願いはやがて他者の願いと隣りあい、わずか3日間の会期の中で実に1800枚もの願いが集積し、ひとつの天の川を立ち上げた。