"Kudaranten" Misayo Tanaka December 2009, 12 - December 7, 2009

The exhibition "Kudaranten" will be held.
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: December 2009, 12 - January 7, 2009
Exhibitor: Misayo Tanaka (2nd year, Composition Major)

Don't dismiss something as stupid. It may be stupid, but...

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What were we thinking about during class yesterday, while soaking in the bath, before falling asleep? Even if I try to remember now, it's all hazy and difficult to remember. We should be using our heads to think about something all day (except when we're sleeping), but we're surprisingly vague about what we're thinking about. Seeing this exhibition, I felt like I was peering into her mind, and at the same time, I couldn't help but reflect on what I usually think about.
　She tears up the paper from her sketchbook, haphazardly sticks it on the white wall of the gallery, and draws humorous, relaxed doodles (?) with pencil (and a few colored pencils). The gallery becomes an enlarged version of her sketchbook, where she records her everyday thoughts ("I wish I could knit a scarf using the haze in my head"), ideas that come to mind ("A chair that becomes one with the chair"), and sincere thoughts ("Does it matter to you whether I intend it or not?"). The rather careless wording "Kudaranten" ("Triviary") (the exhibition title) perfectly symbolizes the contents, and the paper pasted on the wall is filled with "trivial" pencil drawings. As she says in her opening greeting, "There are still many things that I haven't sorted out," this is not a finished work. It is a confession from her mind at a stage much earlier than that, and we may feel a sense of curiosity as we peer into the chaos inside her mind to find out what she is usually thinking. But before long, you can't help but wonder what you yourself are thinking about on a regular basis. Perhaps both she and we are always thinking about "silly" things, and while we forget about them immediately because they are so trivial, she never writes them off as "silly" but keeps a careful record of them. This is the crucial difference between the two. She knows the unknown possibilities that "silly" things hold. Each one may indeed be "silly," but the possibility of creating something new through their accumulation or chemical reaction is endless. In that sense, something "silly" can never be "silly." I can't wait until the day when the "silly" things in her head will transform into something we could never imagine. (Kanazawa Minami)