[After the '96 Yonago Sculpture Symposium]
​ Yonago, a city where landscapes sprout

The bud of the scenery is the title of the work I made at this symposium, but the scenery was sprouting in various places in the city of Yonago. Not only the nature around Yumigahama's coastline, Shiroyama, and Oyama, but also the various towns I meet every day while riding a bicycle, the buds of the scenery I think of were about to sprout. However, unfortunately, I also encountered a place where the buds of the landscape that was about to sprout had died. It is the place that forms the center of the city and is also visited by many people.

While I was in the United States, I was asked several times about my impression of the city of Yonago, but I answered that I am now in a foreign country. That's because people's lifestyles were really rich, centered on the city and Nakaumi. I felt that the relationship between culture and nature, which is lost in today's Japan, which is centered on a big city, and the identity of human life are very well done. The part that I'm sorry about earlier is the part that doesn't make me feel it. A foreign country may be a living space that Japan should have originally, including the culture of the back alleys like Asahi Town. The current progress of Japanese cities is so unusual that it makes us want to grasp such a paradoxical thing.

What impressed me about my life in Yonago was the connection between people and the sea. The promenade along the Nakaumi near the venue where the fireworks and the basketball party were held, starting with the citizen regatta, is the place I loved most except for a certain point. The connection between the people of Yonago and the sea is enviable for me, who is trying to find the meaning of work in that people and the environment are connected by a relationship similar to love. I heard that the park promenade on the edge of the Shinkamo River, where we installed the work, will lead to the sea in the future, and we plan to install sculptures there, but it is an excellent place to have the function of connecting people and the environment. I hope that it will become. If the environment is the principle of the symposium, where we drink together, eat together, talk together, and create together, we can create a city that tends to be promoted by the government as a living space for people to live in. ..

Currently, art installation projects are being actively carried out in various places, but in order for environment creation and artwork to truly collaborate, it is necessary to remove various frames. Art does not help in the way of bidding and consulting-based business. I think you could understand at this symposium that not all artists have their own way of thinking. We are the best partners who can always live and create with the environment. I am looking forward to seeing you again with gratitude for Yonago's nature, culture and people. '96 .9.14