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“Great Purification Rite Doll”

Katashiro_on_BlueprintS[The word “blueprint” is a metaphor for a drawing to dream up a bright future.

However, this blueprinted plan discloses the bowels of the evil device that have taken away the future of many people.

If the nuclear power plants also have the indwelling spirits, I would like to relocate them, along with their sins and defilements, to the katashiro (paper figure), and offer a fervent prayer to have them pass into the nether world so that none shall return through all eternity.]

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(tracing paper on blueprinted paper, 3’9″x2’3″, exhibited in the “No Nukes Art Exhibition” at Sakaimachi Gallery, Kyoto, Sept., 2013)

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Something Old… 3

Prostrating Figure on the Mani Wheel   (mixed media, c1995)

五体投地マニ車 拡大In Tibet and its surrounding regions, the Buddhists exercise two completely opposite styles of praying– one with the physically hardest way with prostration– the other with the most easy-going rotation of a prayer wheel which contains a sacred transcript.

One person does both, though not necessarily at the same time. It is technically difficult to pray in these ways simultaneously for apparent reasons… but why not? My idea to combine mutually extraneous styles of prayer has found a shape in kineto-mechanical contrivance– or simply a gadget, if you prefer.

This piece is one of my “Pseudo-Tibetan Articles” (fake Tibetan tools).

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Something Old… 2

Twittering Machine / Die Zwitscher Maschine   (iron, copper, plexiglass, 1987)

Homage to Paul Klee’s “Twittering Machine”

TwitteringMachineThis is the very first piece I made in UW-Madison in the 80s when I was a grad student and the second kinetic toy after “the Kick-Ass Device”, my last piece in MSU-Moorhead, my under-grad school.

Paul Klee’s drawing “Twittering Machine” was something I really wanted to possess–a replica, of course– and I looked for a poster or postcard in the museum shop of MOMA but couldn’t find one.

The simple solution to obtain a replica is either cut out a plate page of an art history book or draw a copy by myself– I instead thought it would be killing two birds with one stone if I could make a three-dimansional representation of the Twittering Machine– to satisfy my personal longing and a project to be submitted.

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Image file from Wikimedia Commons

The original “Twittering Machine” has cuteness and eeriness juxtaposed in the picture frame where odd-looking mechanical birds are twittering. Its strange atmosphere is derived from the mismatched combination of birds and mechanism (or birds of mechanism). I thought I could make its 3D version with welding rods and copper plates, and somehow managed to realized it but never anticipated what would become of the piece after a quarter century; now the piece– with its iron rods rusted and the feathers tattered– has become something more close to Klee’s original in terms of eeriness.

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Tink Jump Rope  (mixed media, 8″, c1995)

2013-09-30 23.16.35 Don’t even remember when I made this… probably sometime in the mid 90s.
There were the other Tinks in series– one mending her broken wing with a sewing machine, one flapping her wings but no filight, one flying up with propeller-like rotating wings… now, some broken, some missing…

2013-09-30 23.22.49 Tinker Bell looks unhappy while she is jumping rope, because jumping is substantially different behavior from flying which is her innate nature.

This piece is the only one in hand, today. Though I made three other versions of kineto-mechanical Tink in series besides this one, unfortunately they are most probably broken or missing.

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縫い物

クッション、座布団の類を作った。

ミシンかけは嫌いじゃない。ただ、同じ形の袋を延々と縫っているとさすがに飽きてくる。サイズに合わせて裁つのも単純な方形とはいえ時間と手間が結構かかる。

中に入れるアンコにはボロボロの座布団綿やウレタンフォームに加え、母親の家に転がっていたクッションも使わせてもらうことにして、さて縫ったカバーに入れる段になってクッションの補修痕に気づいた。タバコの焼け焦げを「掛け継ぎ」みたいに修理してあったのだ。もう結構目が悪くなってからの仕事だろうけど、一生懸命色を合わせて編みこんであるのを見るとなんか胸が熱くなる。グループホームでは趣味のレース編みもせず、テレビとDVDばかり見ているようだが、来年、白内障の手術を受けたら視覚の刺激が脳を活性化されて、あれこれ手仕事を再開するのでは、と期待している。（という、この辺りは、友人に当てたメールからコピペ。彼女が見たら呆れるやろなあ。。。）

閑話休題。
で、座布団は山ほど出来た。あとは戸のない天袋を隠すカーテン、それに暖簾。カーテンの方は竿と受け金具をこしらえてあるので、丈幅に裁って一直線に縫うだけ。

玄関の暖簾はどうしよう。。。　まだ屋号も考えていない、ていうか、店の名前など要らないのではないかと思う。だったら、開店している証のような暖簾も不要かも、、、。（モグリ営業じゃないんだけど、開いているかどうか表から判らない店は、すなわち「偽」のモグリで、偽道具作りの僕には都合が良い）

あれこれ言い訳を引っ張り出しては開店を後延ばしにしているが、、、テーブルや椅子、座布団まで揃っちゃったら、ついに種切れ。（今週オープンが目標だったけど、来週あたり、、、。あ、今日は日曜。　日曜って、週の始めか週末か？）

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