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北アルプス国際芸術祭【雲結い】Japan Alps Art Festival [Tying Cloud Knots]

大町市 木崎湖(長野)/2017Lake Kizaki, Omachi, Nagano, Japan/2017

北アルプスの山あいに暮らす信濃大町の人々と協働し「相互扶助(現地言葉:ええっこ)=結い」の力で、木崎湖と雲を結ぶイメージで空に向かって組紐を組み上げた作品。湖畔に立ち、北アルプスをはじめとする山々に囲まれた高い空を見上げた時、垂直方向に異なる世界へとつながっていくという山岳文化の精神性を意識しました。またそれは、北アルプスの雪解け水がやがて空へと還るという、大自然の循環のイメージとも重なりました。This work consisted of braided threads reaching into the sky to tie Lake Kizaki to the clouds. It was carried out with the “mutual support” (“Eekko” in local dialect), and collaboration of people living in Shinano Omachi, a mountain village in Japan’s Northern Alps. Standing on the lakeside and looking up the high sky surrounded by mountains including the Northern Alps, I became conscious of the mentality of mountain culture, connected vertically to a different world. Moreover, it overlapped with the image of the cycles of nature as well– the melted snow water of the Northern Alps will return to the sky.

現地に約1ヶ月間滞在し地元との交流をはかりながら制作し、平公民館、木崎湖観光協会、木崎湖キャンプ場の協力により、延べ148名のサポートで木綿糸を25mの長さに2,560本切り、320本ずつを8玉に束ね、桟橋の上で組紐を組み上げて完成させました。While staying there for a month and interacting with local people, we completed the work together with 148 individuals, and with the support of Taira Community Center, the Lake Kizaki Tourism Association and Lake Kizaki Campsite. A cotton thread was cut into 2,560 25-meter-long threads, and made into 8 bundles consisting of 320 threads. We finished braiding them on a pier.

桟橋に立ち湖と雲を結ぶTying the Lake and Clouds From the Pier

木崎湖に突き出た桟橋を行くと、揺らぐ水面を歩いているかのようで、別の世界へと誘われるような浮遊感を感じます。足を止め、じっくりと作品と対峙すると1本1本そろえた幾千本の藍染の糸は天に向かう水流のようにも見えます。そして、丁寧に組み上げられた組目を追っていくと、見上げた先にゆったりと漂う雲に視線が結ばれます。まるで湖と雲を結ぶかのように存在する組紐は、この地に生きる人々の精神の柱であり、北アルプスの雪解け水が豊富に流れる地域の水の神様である龍神が天に昇る姿のようにも感じられました。When I walked on the pier which juts out into the lake, I felt I was floating, as if I were walking on the swaying surface of the water and going into another world. And when I carefully considered the work of Tying Cloud Knots, each of the thousands of indigo-dyed threads looked like a stream heading into the sky. When we examined the braided thread, we found that our gaze was connected with clouds slowly drifting upwards. I felt the braided thread existed as if it tied the lake and clouds, and was a support pillar for the spirits of people living in the place. It would be like a dragon god going up to heaven, which is worshipped as a god of water in these regions rich in water from the melted snow of the Northern Alps.

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