"Japan, Nippon, Nippon" Komada Rikka January 2016th to January 1nd, 19
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2016th - April 1nd, 19
Exhibitor: Komada Rikka (2nd year, Design major, Architecture field)
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In ikebana, the role of plants is to combine the growth and decline of life, which is completed by depicting the organic balance of plants that are rooted in the earth. "Growth and decline" refers to the course of events in which things decline and disappear or grow and flourish, but the material used in this work "Japan, Nippon" was dead wood. However, strangely enough, I could not help but feel an overwhelming sense of vitality in this work. In a small gallery, "something" made of a large amount of dead wood begins to look like a large animal as I continue to observe it. Two blue and red hoses are organically entangled around the dead wood. If this work is considered an "animal," the hoses are probably an artery and a vein. If you think of it that way, the dead wood gives the feeling of the end of life, but the entangled red and blue hoses give the feeling of expansiveness and vitality of life, and it seems that this dominated the gallery with an exquisite sense of tension. Then, my eye was drawn to the large title "Japan, Nihon Nippon" plastered on the window pane. "Wood, the essence of Japan" and "Japanese hoses". Surely this is no coincidence. So what does "Nippon" refer to? Is it the image of Japan seen from overseas? Or perhaps it's just a play on words. I couldn't find the answer. In any case, the two hoses entangled in the mass of dead trees give off an inexplicable sense of dynamism and vitality, and the work naturally energizes me. Today, while urbanization continues, weeds are not giving in and sprouting up through the asphalt ground. Large trees erode without regard for what humans have built. No matter how much humans build civilization with steel and concrete, one day they will be covered by trees and return to the earth. In the same way, humans will also return to the earth one day, and I learned from this work that life waxes and wanes in a complete manner in opposition to vitality. (Shimokama Saki)
