OBJECTRUM
2022
Acrylic on wood
OBJECTRUMは、古くから人々が使ってきた道具や、そこに受け継がれてきた伝統的な形に注目し、そこに込められた人々の感覚や想いを読み取りながら、新たな造形として表現することを試みた。
道具は本来、生活の中で必要とされる機能を持ったものだが、長い時間の中で、その土地の文化や暮らし、人々の祈りや願いと結びつき、独自の形や装飾を生み出してきた。そうした形には、単なる機能や美しさだけではなく、つくり手や使い手が積み重ねてきた経験や記憶が刻まれている。
制作では、伝統的な道具の形や装飾、素材、使われた痕跡などを手がかりに、それらが生まれた背景や、そこに込められてきた意味を考察した。そして、過去の形をそのまま再現するのではなく、その形が持つ文化的な背景や人々の想いを汲み取り、自分自身の感覚を通して新たな形へと置き換えていった。
特に、道具に見られる「装飾」や、機能だけでは説明できない余分な形に着目している。そこには、人がものに対して機能以上の意味を与えようとする感覚や、祈り、願い、儀式性といったものが表れていると考えた。
過去から受け継がれてきた形や文化を手がかりに、その背後にある人々の営みや想いに触れ、それを現代の造形として捉え直す。本プロジェクトは、そうした「受け継ぐこと」と「つくり直すこと」の間にある可能性を探る試みである。
OBJECTRUM focuses on tools that have been used by people for generations, and on the traditional forms that have been passed down through time. By examining the sensibilities and thoughts embedded within these forms, the project seeks to reinterpret them as new forms of expression.
Tools are originally objects created to serve practical functions in everyday life. Yet over long periods of time, they have become intertwined with the culture, ways of life, prayers, and aspirations of the people and places where they were used, giving rise to distinctive forms and decorations. These forms embody more than function or beauty; they carry the experiences and memories accumulated by those who made and used them.
In the process of creating the works, I examined traditional tools through their forms, decorations, materials, and traces of use, using these elements as clues to consider the contexts in which they emerged and the meanings that have been attributed to them. Rather than reproducing forms from the past as they were, I sought to understand the cultural backgrounds and human sentiments embedded within them, and to translate them into new forms through my own sensibility.
In particular, I focus on the decorative elements found in tools, as well as on forms that appear excessive or unnecessary from a purely functional perspective. I consider these elements to reveal a human impulse to give objects meanings beyond their practical purpose—expressing prayer, hope, ritual, and other intangible forms of human experience.
By taking inherited forms and cultures as points of departure, OBJECTRUM seeks to encounter the human activities and sentiments that lie behind them, and to reconsider them through the language of contemporary form. The project explores the possibilities that emerge between the acts of inheriting and remaking.