​やまのかたち / Shape of mountain

これは枯れ木に、木々を模した布を植林していく参加型の作品です。
作品の布は緑色の園芸作業服を用い、絞り染め技法によって木々のような粒を作ります。作業服を絞り上げた粒の布にはスナップボタンが最初から付いており、スナップボタンを取り付けた枯れ木にそれを付けることで一つの大きな山を作ります。
私は手作業で作られる労働力の高い日本の伝統的な絞り染め技法から生まれる絞り粒を「働く人」と見立て、様々な場所で展示しています。今回は園芸や土木で着られる作業服を絞りました。緑の絞り粒は林業や園芸、造園など自然を支えている人のメタファーです。ひとつひとつの粒が枯れ木に纏う姿は、木々が立ち並ぶ森のように見えます。展示期間中は男女年齢問わず、たくさんの人に参加してもらいました。スナップボタンは何度も付け外しができるため、作業服同士をつなげて木にぶら下げて列車のように並べたり、こんもりと盛り上らせたり、色を意識してグラデーションに並べ替えたりと様々なやまのかたちが生まれました。作品に触れて楽しみながら「未来の山の形は、私たちの行動によって変化していくこと」を感じてほしいと思います。

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This is a participatory work in which cloth resembling trees is planted on dead trees.
The cloth for the work is made from green gardening work clothes, and tree-like grains are created using the tie-dye technique. The cloth of the grains squeezed out of the work clothes has a snap button attached from the beginning, and by attaching it to the dead tree with the snap button attached, a large pile is created.
I have been exhibiting my work in various places, regarding the tie-dyed grains produced by the traditional Japanese tie-dyeing technique, which is a labor-intensive process made by hand, as "workers. This time, I shibori work clothes worn in horticulture and civil engineering. The green shibori grains are a metaphor for people who support nature in forestry, horticulture, and landscaping. The way each grain is clothed in dead trees looks like a forest lined with trees. During the exhibition, many people of both genders and all ages participated. Since snap buttons can be attached and detached many times, various forms of mountains were created, such as connecting work clothes together and hanging them from trees like a train, or making them bulge out, or rearranging them in gradations of color.
We hope that visitors will enjoy touching these works and feel that "the shape of the mountains of the future will change depending on our actions.