Seventeen Leaf Scenery 十七葉の風景, "俳句×美術2017"

俳句という“発句”をいただき、景色と観賞者を「色」という媒体でつなぐ、新たな方法を模索した。俳句の世界では17音の言葉で俳人のみた風景を詠む。ならば美術家がみた風景を17色で表現することも可能ではないか。初夏に見た庭の色を17色ずつ抜き出し、ごく薄い和紙17枚（葉）を重ねることによって、観賞者を時間の向こうの景色へと誘うことを意図した。わずかな空気の流れの変化が、微かに景色の色も変える。日の光の強弱や傾きで、“今ここ”の風景は観賞者ごとにちがう色をしている。観る者の感情も密かに揺らしながら、想像力を刺激し、沈思黙考の場を表現した。

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The exhibition was based on the concept of HAIKU. The subject matter that I show the boundary between a viewer and the world by using abstract way of “landscape” still exists, but I challenged a new way of making the body of work which conveys it more naturally than before and fits the space with a hint of HAIKU.

If HAIKU poets make their HAIKU in seventeen syllables, fine artists could express the scenery in seventeen colours. I picked up seventeen colours from what I saw in this garden of a samurai house last summer, then painted one colour on one sheet of paper, bringing them together to hide the garden from a viewer, on a purpose of making them step forward to imagine the scenery. I believe the subtle atmosphere of Japanese style could provide a good time and place for the viewer to get provoked their imagination and to get lost in deep thought.

▸ Seventeen Leaf Scenery 十七葉の風景