時の経過を仕込む

いい年の取り方をしている人を見るだけで、こちらもいい気分になるもので、人となりがわからなくても表情に現れている。

記憶は誰にでもあり、記憶が刻まれた物もあり、記憶を継承していることが積み重なり深遠につながる。記憶は時間の経過が前提になるから、深遠を目指すならば、時間の経過とどう向き合うか、時間の経過をどのように扱うかが考えるところとなるだろう。

3年位前に京都で漆器を制作して貰った。いくつかの木地の型の中から選び、塗りは色も塗り方もデザインし、白漆に銀漆を一部纏わせてみた。制作した当時は何度か使ったが、久しぶりに引っ張り出してみたら、銀漆がいい具合に枯れていて、白漆とうまく馴染んでいるように思い、益々愛着が増した。

もしかしたら、銀漆の素材が粗悪で経年劣化をしてしまったのかもしれないが、白漆の色との相性を考えたら、粗悪だとしても銀漆の色の変化に嬉しくなった。

時間を銀漆の色変化によって目に見えるようにしたように感じ、素材が持つ力を垣間見たように思った。素材も人も変化した後にどう見えるか、きっと先のことはよくわからない様もあり、意外性もあり、ただそこに時間の経過を仕込む行為が大事なのだろう。

"Prepare the passage of time"

Just looking at a person who is getting a good age makes me feel good, and even if I don't know who I am, I can see it in my facial expression.

Everyone has memories, some of which are engraved with memories, and the inheritance of memories accumulates and leads to profoundness. Since memory is premised on the passage of time, if you aim for profoundness, you will have to think about how to deal with the passage of time and how to handle the passage of time.

I got a lacquer ware made in Kyoto about 3 years ago. I chose from several types of wood, designed the color and method of painting, and put some silver lacquer on white lacquer. I used it several times when I made it, but when I pulled it out for the first time in a while, I thought that the silver lacquer had withered well and that it blended well with the white lacquer, and I became more and more attached to it.

Perhaps the material of silver lacquer was inferior and deteriorated over time, but considering the compatibility with the color of white lacquer, I was happy with the change in the color of silver lacquer even if it was inferior.

I felt that time was made visible by the color change of silver lacquer, and I felt that I had a glimpse of the power of the material. It seems that we don't know what the future will look like after the materials and people have changed, and there are some surprises, so it is important to just put the passage of time into it.