"Type in accident" Yoko Kanamori June 2013, 6 - June 19, 2013
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: June 2013, 6 (Wednesday) - June 19, 2013 (Friday)
Exhibitor: Yoko Kanamori (4th year student, Visual Design major)
We followed the shapes of letters and how they change through chance.
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On the gallery wall, a panel with several "kanji" characters is displayed. I'm not sure if "written" is the right word; "drawn" might be more appropriate, because these kanji characters are not simply written characters. The character for "bending" is bent. The character for "crushing" is crushed. The kanji characters are transformed to fit the meanings imbued in them, making them more visually appealing.
The meaning expressed by the character symbol kanji and the visual illustration of its appearance. When we see the character "kutsu" (grip), we understand its meaning, but this understanding is something real, that is, it is separate from the feeling of the phenomenon of "bending." Seeing the character "kuzu" (collapse), understanding what it means and feeling it "collapse" are different. However, the kanji in this exhibition have both of these things present at the same time. It is possible to see the deformed characters on the panel as pictures, but because the kanji can be read, the meaning inevitably enters your mind. This creates a double understanding in your mind at the same time - understanding the meaning of the character and knowing with your five senses the phenomenon the kanji represents.
We learned in elementary and junior high school that kanji characters were created in various ways, including from pictographs that directly imitate the shapes of objects, from combinations of sounds and meanings, and from combinations of meanings. In other words, they were created to separate phenomena and objects from their actual state and express them as symbols. If that's the case, then can't we say that the characters we've created this time are the reverse of that process? They express kanji characters that are symbols that are detached from their actual state, once again in a more visual way, that is, in a way that can be felt by the senses, rather than as symbols.However, not all the characters in this study overlapped an understanding of their meaning with a tangible experience like the above. Among the characters such as "bend," "crush," and "collapse," only "wind" and "heat" were different, and I felt that the sense of unity was somewhat wavering. "Wind" is blown away by the wind, and "heat" melts with heat. These are the only two characters that did not visualize the meaning itself, but rather expressed the phenomenon that results from them. (Okano Emiko)
