Mounds

このシリーズでは、現代人の暮らしの傍らで、それとは無関係に存在しつつ景色のなかで交ざり合う古墳に着目して、歳月の積層の上に生きる人間のありようを現出させることを試みる。古墳は十数世紀前に権力者の眠る墓として象徴性も持ちつつ築造されたが、現在に至る過程で尊厳を保持されないかたちで毀損され、または都市のうちに埋もれ静安を保てなくなっているものが少なくない。ごく近年に文化財としての価値が認識され保護・保全の対象となってきたが、すでに進んだ都市化のために家屋・公共施設や公共インフラなどとの間に緩衝もなく墳丘が残る景観は、時間も意識も大きく隔たる人間の営みが隣り合う奇異な相をなしている。

This series is intended to find the way humans live on the layers of the ages, focusing on the ancient burial mounds (called Kofun in Japanese) that exist in the landscape while being irrelevant to the lives of modern people. The ancient burial mounds were built in East Asia, including Japan, as graves where persons in authority sleep a dozen centuries ago. There are many mounds that have been damaged in ways that do not preserve dignity, or are buried in cities and are unable to keep quiet in the urbanization in later generations, especially in modern times. Although the value as a cultural heritage has been recognized and has been the subject of protection and conservation in recent years, there is no buffer between the mounds and the houses, public facilities or public infrastructure due to the already advanced urbanization. The landscape has a strange aspect in which human activities are separated by time and consciousness.