I am thinking about the balance of between natural and artifice.

 

私は自然と人工のバランスについて考えている。

 

私は山の上を削ってできた住宅街に住み、過疎地域の隅にあるバイパス沿いの、森の中のアトリエに通い制作している。

日本がバブル経済にわいた時代、ベッドタウンとして都市に通勤する人々が住むために作られたまち。地域の文化とは切り離されて、歴史のない2x4構造の住宅が立ち並ぶまち。

ニュータウンのふちに行くと元々の山があり、野生動物がいる。人工物によって分断された自然と人工の境界がある。

 

自然とは何か。

木々に囲まれている自然を不自然に感じ、ビルに囲まれる人工物を自然に感じる。自然への認識は生活環境に左右される。赤ん坊は自我の無いころから、場所の解釈を経験し、特異な状況を受け入れる。拡張し続ける現在の自然を疑いもなくうけいれる。

 

人間は、生物のヒエラルキーから逸脱し、鹿を神にも害獣にもできるように、想いのままにどこにでも身を移せるようになった。人間同士のヒエラルキーもつくり、摩擦を起こす。場所や気温、湿度、天候、140文字の文章、広告、映画、本、時間、睡眠、集落、歴史、、、、些細なことで転がる認識は千差万別で矛盾したまま進む。

 

力を恐れ過剰防衛し戦争が起きるように。人は自然を恐れ、自然は人を恐れ、恐怖が交差し防御は攻撃に変わっていく。両義性を持つ人間の強さと弱さによって動く様々。この曖昧なものについて私は考えている。

 

 

 

” Don't talk like one of them you're not, even if you'd like to be. To them you're a freak like me... they just need you right now. But as soon as they don't, they'll cast you out like leper. Their morals, their code... it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. ”

 

「あっち側にいるつもりで物を言うなよ。お前は違う、たとえそうありたいと思っていたとしてもだ。やつらから見ればアンタもオイラと同じ異常者だぜ……今は必要とされてるけど。でもすぐそうじゃなくなる。そうしたらアンタは嫌われ者だ。やつらが言うモラルだとか規律だとか…… そんなもん悪い冗談だ。困ったことが起こりそうになったら。状況によってはやつらはモラルなんて捨てちまうぜ。」

 

(From "The Dark Knight" / Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., / Film director: Christopher Nolan / Joker's lines )

 

 

 

 

 

I live in a residential area built on the top of a mountain, and go to an atelier in the forest along a bypass road in a depopulated area.

It was created as a bedroom town, a place where people who commute to the city live when Japan was in a bubble economy.
A town lined with 2x4 houses without history, separated from the local culture.
Outside the town, there are original mountains and wild animals.
There are natural and artificial boundaries divided by concrete.

 

What is nature.
Individual recognition acts unconsciously to determine the state.
We feel the nature surrounded by trees unnaturally, and the artifacts surrounded by buildings feel natural.

The perception of nature depends on the environment in which you lived.
A baby experiences interpretation of a place and receives unusual situations from the time when he does not have an ego.
Accept without a doubt AI, VR, the Internet, the ever-expanding nature.

 

Humans have deviated from the hierarchy of living beings.
Just as we can do deer as a god or a pest, we can move as we wish.
It also creates human hierarchy and causes friction.
Location, temperature, humidity, weather, text of 140 characters, CM, movie, book, time, sleep, settlement, history, ..., recognition that rolling in trivial matters goes on in various contradictions.

Be afraid of power and over-defense so that war will occur.
People are afraid of nature, nature is afraid of people, fears cross and defense turns into aggression.
A variety that moves with the strength and weakness of human beings with duality.

I'm thinking about this vague thing.

 

” Don't talk like one of them you're not, even if you'd like to be. To them you're　a freak like me... they just need you right now.　But as soon as they don't, they'll cast you out like leper. Their morals, their code... it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. ”

 

(From "The Dark Knight" / Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., / Film director: Christopher Nolan / Joker's lines )