UTSUTSU
Part of the calligraphy is covered with frosted acrylic, fixed with bolts.
Within a single work, a border is drawn between the area where contours remain and the area where they dissolve
— the boundary between reality and what precedes naming, erected as physical matter on the surface.
書の一部を、すりガラス型アクリルで覆い、ボルトで留める。
一枚の中に、輪郭が見える領域と、溶けていく領域の境界を引く
——名づけの手前と現実の境目を、画面の上に物質として立てるシリーズ。
Sense of Contact
Calligraphy is enshrined behind frosted acrylic inside a small cabinet with doors, modeled on a Buddhist altar.
To open, or not to open — the act of contact is entrusted to the viewer.
扉のある厨子(仏壇型)に、すりガラス越しの書を納める。
開けるか、開けないか——触れることを鑑賞者に委ねるシリーズ。
Phenomenon
The calligraphy is burned.
The ashes are sealed in acrylic and fixed.
A series that holds the process of language being stripped away, returning to pure phenomenon.
書を焼く。
灰をアクリルに挟み、留める。
言葉が剥がれ、純粋な現象へ還るプロセスを留めるシリーズ。
Origins
Early experiments from which the three series later diverged.
のちに三つのシリーズへ分岐していく、初期の実験群。