EXPOSED IN A HUNDRED SUNS (2012-)
Historical monuments are always accompanied by political / ethical contexts. However, what monuments intrinsically provide us are totally new relationships that each one of us individually makes with the surface of objects, which have been directly exposed to the past event and consequently altered, by experience.
If we simplify monuments into abstract meanings, such as “peace” or “antiwar”, many nuances related to our memory and emotion would be overlooked. Therefore, we, who do not have the experience of an atomic bombing or Daigo Fukuryu Maru Incident, ought to linger on the surface of things.
Listen to the new stories of yours and mine that are woven from the surface of monuments. Through new emotions and sense of reality that arise individually within each of us, we will finally discover a narrow pathway to share memories of others.
百の太陽に灼かれて (2012-)
歴史的なモニュメントは、つねに強い政治的/倫理的メッセージを伴なうものだ。しかし、本来モニュメントがわたしたちに提供するのは、出来事に直接晒され変容したモノの表面と、それに触れる者の間に築かれる、まったく新しい個別的な関係性である。
モニュメントからひとつの抽象的意味──「平和」や「反戦」といった──へ短絡するとき、わたしたちの記憶や感情に結びつく多くの細部が見失われるだろう。だから、原爆を、第五福竜丸を知らないわたしたちは、モノの表面に留まりつづけなくてはならない。
モニュメントの表面から紡ぎ出される、あなたとわたしの新しい物語に、耳を傾けること。こうしてわたしたちは、一人ひとりの内に個別に生まれ出ずる、新しい感情と現実感覚を通して、辛くも、他者の記憶を分有するための、わずかな可能性を見いだすだろう。
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March 11, 2011, Todoroki, Fallout from US H-bomb test in 1954; sampled from Japanese fising boat Lucky Dragon
Daguerreotype, 6.3x6.3cm. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
February 16th, 2012. The calender of Lucky Dragon (Japansese wooden fishing boat exposed to the radiation of US H-bomb test at Bikini atoll, 1954)
Daguerreotype, 25.2x19.3cm
Dec 12, 2012. Matashichi Oishi, a former crew of Daigo Fukuryu Maru, No.2
Daguerreotype, 25.2x19.3cm
Study#2,AMultipleMonumentforDaigoFukuryūmaru(LuckyDragon5)
2014, Daguerreotype, 35x35cm. Private collection.
A multiple monument for Lucky Dragon 5
Daguerreotype, 106x198cm. Private collection
March 23, 2014, The sun at the apparent altitude of 570m in WNW, Hijiyama Park, Hiroshima
Daguerreotype, 19.3x25.2cm. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection
The Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
2014, Daguerreotype, 25.2x19.3cm
A Multiple Monument for the Atomic Bomb Dome, Study, Hirosima
2014, Daguerreotype, 20x40cm.
A Maquette for a Multiple Monument for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
2014, Daguerreotype, 66 x 152cm. Private collection.
May 13, 2012. Misako's Hibaku Piano (Piano Bombed and Exposed to the Radiation in the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima in 1954), Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, Tokyo.
Daguerreotype, 25.2x19.3cm. The SFMOMA collection
Mrs. Reiko Brown; A survivor of Atomic bombing in Hiroshima, San Antonio, TX
2014, Daguerreotype, 25.2x19.3cm.
A Maquette for a Multiple Monument for B29:Bockscar
2014, Daguerreotype, 73x220cm. MAST Foundation collection.
March 16, 2014. The sun and thesilhouette of dandelions, the Konpira Shrine Park, Nagasaki
Daguerreotype, 11.9x16.5cm
A Maquette for a Multiple Monument for the Wristwatch Dug Up from Ueno-machi, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Daguerreotype, 50x50cm. Private collection
A Maquette for the Ground Zero No.1, Peace Memorial Park, Ground Zero for the Nagasaki A-Bomb, March 15, 2014
Daguerreotype, 45x19cm
A Maquette for the Trinity Site No.2, White Sands Missile Range, NM, April 6, 2013
Daguerreotype, 45x19cm
April 6, 2013. Trinity Site, White Sands Missle Range, NM
2014, Daguerreotype, 25.2x19.3cm
A Maquette for a Multiple Monument for Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
2014, Daguerreotype, 67x280cm.
Multiple Monument for B29: Enola Gay 2017 200x77cm