EXHIBITION

◉pan_object

①

はじめに粉と水を手で混ぜます。少しずつ粉と水を足しながら何日か繰り返すと酵母の種ができます。生地をこねて発酵させます。その後適切なタイミングを見計らい成形します。発酵して膨らむので焼きあがりの造形は大きく変化します。はじめにオーブンで焼き、そして庭で火を熾して焼きしめます。乾燥させてすっかり水気がとぶと、パンオブジェクトの完成です。

②

The process begins by mixing flour and water by hand. After repeating the same process for several days, flour and water is added little by little, to make yeast. After kneading the dough and left to ferment, it will be modeled at the appropriate timing. As it ferments and expands, the shape of the baked product changes dramatically. The dough is first baked in the oven, and then baked over a fire in the garden. When they are dry and completely drained, the pan_objects are ready.

‘’Pan_object’’ means ‘’Bread_object’’. ’’Pan’’ is a word for bread in Japanese.

③

消えうる造形物を作りたいと考えています。この塊を土の上に置いたら、虫や鳥が食べ、雨が降ったらどろどろとくずれて土に染み込んでいくでしょう。

小学生の頃、クッキーやパウンドケーキを焼いて家族に食べてもらうことが好きでした。兄弟の誕生日には生クリームを泡立ててケーキを焼きました。そのうちに、隙を突いて秘密でお菓子を作ってびっくりさせるという手法が気に入りました。

ものを作ることが私にとって重要で、自分なりの世界との繋がり方だと思っています。

パンオブジェクトをオーブンから出すとき、台所でこそこそとお菓子を作った時と同じくらいそわそわと浮き立つ気持ちになります。

パンオブジェクトの造形は、発酵／焼成を経て、私の手から遠ざかっていきます。大抵は思ってもいない膨らみ方をしますし、直火で焼く際は火力の調整が下手で予期せぬ焦げ目がつくか、丸焦げになります。そうしてできた予想外の造形を私は大抵気に入ります。

気に入らない時もあります。どうしても自分の手の範囲から造形が動かなくなってしまう時、それをこわして新たな生地とつなげて造形しなおします。生地を付け足しながら繰り返し焼く場合もあります。

私が作ってからそれに触れた人がひととおり楽しむ間、あたかも作品としてあったパンが、ある拍子に粉々に砕けて誰かに食べられるか、または土に溶けて消えていくことを思い浮かべます。

ささやかな遊びをそのまま、あなたと私の間にどんなふうに置こうかと考えています。

④

I want to create objects that can disappear. If I put this object on the ground, insects and birds will eat it, and if it rains, it will dissolve and soak into the soil.

When I was in elementary school, I liked to bake cookies and pound cakes for my family to eat. For my siblings' birthdays, I would whip up the cream and bake cakes. Eventually, I started to like the technique of surprising people by making a secret treat to catch them off guard.

Creation is important to me, and I think it's my own way of connecting with the world.

When I take the pan_object out of the oven, I feel as fidgety and buoyant as I do when I sneak into the kitchen to make a pastry.

The shape of the pan_object becomes uncontrollable as it goes through the fermentation/baking process. Most of the time, they puff up in unexpected ways, and when I bake them over an open flame, I am not very good at adjusting the heat and they either burn unexpectedly or burn completely. I usually like the unexpected shapes I get from the result.

Sometimes I don't like it. When the deformation doesn’t exceed my expectation, I scrap it and re-sculpt it with new dough. In some cases, I bake it repeatedly, adding more dough.

While I see enjoyment of those who come into contact with my work, I imagine the bread as if it had been a work of art, and then one day it breaks into pieces and is eaten by someone, or melts into the earth and disappears.

I am thinking about how I can place this little fun between you and me.