Work Description
Narumi Yamasaki
The motivation for my production is the desire to vividly feel another world through matter and objects. The aspiration to experience another world is not rare. It is a desire that has existed from time immemorial, as seen in myths and religions. The simple way to feel another world may be to wear matter and objects themselves of another world. Hercules, a hero in Greek myth, is often portrayed as a figure wearing the fur of a lion. The figure tells us not only the world of human and god, but also the world of the lion. While the fur is an object which allows us to directly wear that world, I came up with a book as an object to indirectly wear as a world. A book is less vivid, but makes any surreal world possible.
Issues that we cannot ignore when we think about a way to wear certain worlds are structures of matter and objects and also what sensory mechanism we use to receive them. Fur and books are both objects, but the way the body perceives them is different. In history, the way to read varies depending on the books, such as medieval manuscripts. In the Middle Ages, a book was to be read aloud using the whole body. Nowadays, we only faintly sense the feel of paper and smell of ink, and no longer even notice if something other than letters and paintings are inscribed. This is the reason why I stick to paper as a place to inscribe information. Currently, I am trying to create a bear with paper, replicate its skin, and portray marks of a bear on the paper.
2014
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