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[Title of work] ㉖ Manners
SHINGO MURAI
Born in Oita prefecture
1952-
[About the work]
Ishikamo along the river The white Mikage stone block on the promenade along the Kamo River is divided into two by three right-angled faces and arranged in a slightly open state. The orientation was determined by the levelness of the river surface, the inclination of the concrete wall on one side, and the shape of the promenade covered with brick tiles.
"Manners" is what it should be and what I am. How do people who come and go perceive the confusion that things are placed in an empty space?
[Production] 2000 Yonago Sculpture Symposium
[Session] July 22nd -August 30th , 2000
[Participating in the Yonago Sculpture Symposium]
I had heard about the Yonago Sculpture Symposium several times from acquaintance writers, and everyone talked about the goodness of Yonago with a nostalgic look.
Thirty years ago, when I was just enrolled in art school, I had no special feelings for Yonago other than the memory of just passing by while traveling around the Chugoku region by car with a friend. was hearing. Living in a new land that can be freed from miscellaneous things and buried in production is a happy time by itself, but I miss the blessed natural environment and the calm townscape, and from the standpoint of everyone involved in the symposium. I was encouraged by my passion and was able to concentrate on my work comfortably. The distance between the production site and the installation location was also ideal for me, and I was able to go back and forth frequently and make convincing confirmation work. I think this is the most important factor in sculpture production.
This is one of the great things about the Yonago Sculpture Symposium. Following the changes in the world, the diversification of art has progressed rapidly, and it is not easy to find a shape suitable for Yonago from the wide range of options. The anguish between what to keep and the new changes is the same for writers. I hope that the Yonago Sculpture Symposium will grow as well as my own growth as a writer.
The wind that crosses the Nakaumi. The heat of the calm. Fireworks I saw up close. Toro nagashi, heron. Monkey-faced cat. Shiba Inu who doesn't know the name with a beautiful woman. Sweaty face of a healthy young person rowing a boat. After the closing ceremony was over and everyone was sent off, I returned to Minatoyama Park and climbed up with breathlessness due to the deep sake of the nights.
I got up to work faster than anyone else, sat down under a blue tarpaulins tent swaying in the wind across the Nakaumi, and drank while looking at the stones. Encounter with many wonderful people. Every time I returned from Yonago and my acquaintances asked me about the symposium, I answered, Yonago was good. I was fortunate to be able to spend the summer of 2000 in Yonago.
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