What you look at
What you look for
is already here.
What you look for
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Photography, 2023
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Photograph on Paper (Inkjet print / wooden flame)
148×100mm (Print size), 170×120×45mm (Flame size)
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Video, 2023
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20:50
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Photograph on Paper (Inkjet print / wooden flame)
148×100mm (Print size), 170×120×45mm (Flame size)
Price: ask
Video, 2023
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20:50
2022年9月5日。 部屋の窓に取り付けられた黒いロールスクリーンに、2センチほどの小さな穴を見つけた。
フィンランドの小さな田舎町、ハウキヤルヴィでのことだった。
カメラオブスキュラ。 カメラの原型となった光学装置のこと。
真っ暗な部屋の窓に小さな穴を用意すると、その一点から、外の世界の風景が反転した状態で部屋の壁に投影される、というシンプルな仕組みだ。遡れば、レオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチやフェルメールも、この装置を用いて外の世界を観察し、そして描こうとしていた。おそらく、過去に滞在していた誰かもまた、なにかを見ようとしてこの穴を開けたのだろう。
暗闇の中、部屋の壁を傍観する。
少しずつ色彩が、浮かび上がってくる。
プラネタリウムみたいな光。
だけど、風で動いてとてもおもしろい。
そしてなにより美しい。
——— 9月5日の日記より
あなたが見ているもの
あなたが見ようとしているもの
カメラオブスキュラを見ていると、光の本質的な所がよくわかる。
近いと青かったものが、遠ざかると白になる。
青に色が足されてしまうからだ。
同じ光でも、にごると、消える。
現代社会のよう。
——— 9月6日の日記より
暗幕を上げて、窓の外を見れば、明るく鮮明な風景が目に入ってくるにも関わらず、どうしてわざわざ暗い部屋で、反転している像を見ているのだろう。ベッドに映る白樺の幹、扉に映る緑の木々、戸棚に映る空の青。外の世界の日常と、部屋の中の日常が重なり合って、少しだけ特別な、あるいはとても小さな美しさが目の前に現れてくる。
あなたは何を見ている/見ようとしているのか？
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September 5, 2022. I found a small hole, about 2 centimeters in size, in the black roller blind attached to the window of the room. It happened in Haukiärvi, a small rural town in Finland.
Camera obscura.
It refers to the optical device that served as the precursor to the camera. By creating a small hole in a completely dark room window, the landscape of the outside world is projected onto the walls of the room in an inverted state. It's a simple mechanism. Going back in time, even Leonardo da Vinci and Vermeer used this device to observe and depict the outside world. Perhaps someone who stayed here in the past also made this hole in an attempt to see something.
In the darkness, I observe the walls of the room.
Gradually, colors emerge and come to life.
Gradually, colors emerge and come to life.
A light resembling a planetarium.
However, it moves with the wind, which makes it fascinating.
And above all, it's beautiful.
- From the diary entry of September 5th.
However, it moves with the wind, which makes it fascinating.
And above all, it's beautiful.
- From the diary entry of September 5th.
What you look at
What you look for
What you look for
When you look at the camera obscura, you can understand the essential nature of light.
Objects that appear close appear blue, but as they move away, they turn white.
It's because blue color gets added.
Even the same light, when it becomes hazy, disappears.
Similar to modern society.
- From the diary entry of September 6th.
Objects that appear close appear blue, but as they move away, they turn white.
It's because blue color gets added.
Even the same light, when it becomes hazy, disappears.
Similar to modern society.
- From the diary entry of September 6th.
Despite being able to raise the curtain and look outside the window to see a bright and clear landscape, why would someone go through the trouble of looking at the inverted image in a dark room? The white trunks reflected on the bed, the green trees reflected on the door, the blue sky reflected on the cupboard. The everyday life outside and the everyday life inside the room overlap, revealing a slightly special, or perhaps very small, beauty right before your eyes.
What are you looking at/for?
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