It's shaking

Based on the concept of “white poetry,” I created a special work that functions both as a bookend and as a box-shaped lamp.

A pure white world spread out in a paperbook-sized wooden box.

doors, windows, sofas, lamps, bicycles, animals, broken sailboats, letterpress printers, countless small books made of paper --

Delicate shapes born from familiar materials such as wood, paper, and metal wire show a serene beauty of shadows during the day and a warm expression of light at night.

A “white poem” is a poem spelled in form rather than words.

light and shade. Opposites harmonize quietly in a small box, bringing peace and imagination to the viewer.

When I was a child who loved reading books, the experience of stories emerging from flat words is the origin of this formative world.

An expression born from trial and error, through self-taught learning of various techniques.

When arranged on a bookshelf, books spelled out in words and poems spelled out in form harmonize beautifully.

In a relationship where they need and support each other, each box is an independent short story, and as a whole, they are connected by a single worldview called “white poetry.”

[Changing Scenery]

You can switch the impression of the light with the two switches on the back.

Enjoy a viewing experience where different shadows are created during the day and night, and the depth of the story changes.

When the light is turned off, there is a margin of silence.

【素材】

《白詩》の作品は、身近でありながら、時間とともに呼吸する素材たちを中心に構成しています。

木、紙、金属、ガラス、そして灯り。

どれも強く主張するためではなく、静かに「在ること」を支えるために選ばれています。

■ 木材

作品の土台となる木箱やベースには、耐久性と安定性を考慮した木材を使用しています。

切り出し、研磨し、表面の角を柔らかく整えることで、内部の静かな世界を包み込む“器”としての役割を持たせています。

木という有機的な素材は、わずかな伸縮や質感の温度感を内包し、無機質ではない「生きている枠」として、作品の呼吸を支えます。

■ 紙

白い立体の多くは、紙を重ね、削り、削ぎ落としながら形にしています。

紙は軽く、脆く、しかし、重なり続けることで密度と存在感を宿す素材です。

“言葉になる前の気配”をかたちにするため、紙の質感や繊維の密度、光の吸い込み方まで一つひとつ確認しながら制作しています。

昼の光では白さの中に微細な影が浮かび、夜の灯りでは柔らかな輪郭へと変わります。

■ 金属線

細部の構造や微細な造形には、金属線を用いています。

軽さと強度を両立させるための骨格として働く一方、見えない内部の支えとして“存在の静けさ”を裏側から保つ役割を持ちます。

必要以上に主張せず、形の影に溶け込む素材として扱っています。

■ ガラスドーム・アクリル窓

一部の作品はガラスドームや透明板によって覆われています。

これは内部を守るための保護であると同時に、「静かな世界をひとつの物語として封じる」という意味も担っています。

外界との境界としての透明な膜が、内部の静けさを際立たせます。

■ 灯り（LED・電池仕様）

作品によっては、内部にやわらかな灯りを組み込んでいます。

強い照明ではなく、影を壊さない微かな光。

夜の静かな時間に寄り添えることを前提に、発熱の少ないLEDを採用し、優しい暖色を選んでいます。

電池式を基本とし、生活空間で無理なく扱える仕様としています。

■ 素材選択の考え方

・身近でありながら、物語を内包できる素材

・光と影の揺らぎを受け止められる質感

・長く寄り添える現実的な耐久性

・“華美ではなく、静けさを支えるもの”

それぞれの素材は、装飾ではなく「意味を支える骨格」として存在しています。

完成した作品は、一つのものとして閉じられるのではなく、見る人の記憶や感覚によって、静かに続きを呼吸し続ける存在であってほしいと考えています。

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【制作場所について】

兵庫の新アトリエが形づくられていく過程を収めた記録です。

作品が生まれる場所の光や空気が少しずつ整っていく様子を、静かな時間の流れとともに記録しています。

[Material]

The work “White Poetry” is composed mainly of materials that are familiar yet breathe over time.

Wood, paper, metal, glass, and lights.

None of them are chosen to make strong claims, but to quietly support “being.”

■ wood

The wooden box and base, which serve as the foundation of the work, are made of wood that takes durability and stability into consideration.

By cutting out, polishing, and softening the corners of the surface, it plays a role as a “vessel” that envelops the quiet inner world.

The organic material called wood contains slight stretching and a sense of texture, and supports the breathing of the work as a “living frame” that is not inorganic.

■ paper

Most of the white three-dimensional objects are shaped by layering, scraping, and scraping off paper.

Paper is a material that is light and brittle, yet has density and presence as it continues to overlap.

In order to give shape to the “sign before it becomes a word,” we create while checking the texture of the paper, the density of the fibers, and even the way light is absorbed one by one.

In daytime light, fine shadows float in the whiteness, and in nighttime light, they change to soft outlines.

■ metal wire

Metal wire is used for detailed structures and fine modeling.

While it works as a framework for achieving both lightness and strength, it also has the role of maintaining “tranquility of existence” from the other side as an invisible internal support.

We treat it as a material that blends in with the shadows of shapes without asserting more than necessary.

■ Glass domes and acrylic windows

Some works are covered by glass domes and transparent plates.

This is protection to protect the interior, and at the same time, it also has the meaning of “sealing a quiet world as a single story.”

The transparent membrane as a boundary with the outside world accentuates the serenity of the interior.

■ Light (LED/battery specification)

Depending on the work, soft lighting is incorporated into the interior.

It's not a strong light, and it's a faint light that doesn't break shadows.

On the premise that they will be close to quiet times at night, LEDs with low heat generation are used, and gentle, warm colors are selected.

It is basically battery operated, and is designed so that it can be handled without difficulty in a living space.

■ How to think about material selection

・Materials that are familiar yet can contain a story

・A texture that can accept fluctuations in light and shadow

・Realistic durability to stay close to for a long time

・ “Not glamorous, but something that supports serenity”

Each material exists not as a decoration, but as a “framework that supports meaning.”

I would like the completed work not to be closed as one thing, but to be an entity that continues to quietly breathe in the continuation according to the viewer's memories and senses.