"海を引く"では、ウェスタン・パークの地面、海抜４０ｍ地点の水平曲線を一筋の光の線でなぞり、"あの日"の海岸線を描きました。この４０ｍという高度は東北大震災の津波で岩手の宮古市で記録された最大遡上高（４０.５ｍ）に由来します。
津波の動画はインターネットにあふれていますが、被災者の人々があの日、いったい何に直面したのか、ということを想像するのは実際にあの海岸にいなかった人間（特に日本国外の人々）には遥かに難しい事です。
この想像上の津波の水面を行き来することで、遥か遠い日本で起こった"理解しがたいこと"が少しでも"理解できること"になることを願っています。
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このインスタレーションはArt in the Dark 2011の参加作品です。
開催地：Western Park, Ponsonby, Auckland.
展示期間：２０１１年１１月１１、１２日
ＬＥＤ電飾４５０ｍ分はイルミネーションレンタル会社のラ・ルミエに協賛していただきました。水平曲線の測量は工学部出身の友人に協力していただきました。
注：このウェスタン・パークは谷状になっていて、途中かなり高低差があります。下は約海抜２０m、上は約５０m。宮古市重茂姉吉地区と同じ、いわゆるリアス式海岸の地形です。
わかりにくいと思いますが、光の線が弧を描いているのが「入り江」の一番奥まったところ、グニャグニャして見えるのは地面の凹凸があるところ（ほとんどの場所は坂でした）、けれど「谷」の反対側から見ると水平に見えます。パノラマ写真は一番奥近くの「海」の中から「岸辺」に向かって約225°ぐるっと撮りました。４枚の写真をつなげてあります。
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この文はDrawing a Seaのブログポストの日本語補足です。This text is supplementary to the last blog post, "Drawing a Sea".
01 December 2011
20 November 2011
Drawing a Sea @ Art in the Dark 2011
Drawing a Sea is a site-specific light installation that traces an imaginary shoreline with string lights that will rest 40 metres above sea level on the ground of Western Park. This height set out for the lights reflects the highest rise of water (run-up) in sea-level recorded in a small cove in Miyako City in the recent Japanese tsunami.
Even with an abundance of video footage of the tsunami engulfing the land, it is hard to grasp what people actually went through on that day. The artist hopes that as the audience wander in and out of the surface of this imaginary tsunami, the incomprehensible will become comprehensible.
Art in the Dark http://www.artinthedark.co.nz/Western Park, Ponsonby, Auckland.
11-12 November 2011
Looking up the "surface".
Panoramic view from inside of the "sea". (Compiled from four photos, spans approx. 225 degrees.)
From the east end of lights towards the west side of the hill.
Detail.
This project was made possible with supports from Art in the Dark 2011 team, La Lumiere who sponsored 450m string of lights, and Cameron, Tim & George who helped me setting out the height of the ground.
27 September 2011
Art in the Dark 2011
New work of a site-specific installation will be part of Art in the Dark, two nights event of art in Western Park, Freemans Bay/Ponsonby.
11 & 12 November 2011
www.artinthedark.co.nz
Drawing a Sea, a concept sketch.
11 & 12 November 2011
www.artinthedark.co.nz
Drawing a Sea, a concept sketch.
26 September 2011
Surface Characteristics @ split/fountain
Inconspicuous Motto
Surface Characteristics 29 July – 20 August 2011
A group show with Claire Cooper, Clara Chon and Xin Cheng
Surface Characteristics @ split/fountain
15 September 2011
A SIZE OF TRAGEDY
A SIZE OF TRAGEDY, the Evening Post, 6 August 1945.
Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand.
Click on the image to see a bigger picture.
27 March 2011
TEE PARTY
September 29, 1938
An advertisement appeared on The New Zealand Herald on the day Sudetenland was ceded to Germany.
Hirohito
Decorations of Honour given and divested:
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath – Conferred in 1921, revoked in 1942.
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order – Conferred in 1924, revoked in 1942.
Designed by Asumi Mizuo. These T-shirts were produced for the occasion of Tokyo Art Book Fair 2010, and were available online on-demand from TEE PARTY. Participated as split/fountain.
23 January 2011
Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction
29 January - 25 April 2011
Artist's Workshop—Asumi Mizuo
Saturday 9 April, 2–4pm
http://citygallery.org.nz/
More photos of the Kintsugi Crown Lynn works is here.
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