Journal from 2008-2009 (No.29)
他のジャーナルでもそうだが、最初の方のページにコンタクトがいろいろ載っている。ただどれも近しい人たちというよりも社交の場での人々とのカジュアルな連絡先交換やストアの担当者の連絡先というような感じである。日本の親族などの情報はほとんど登場しない。
As in other journals, there are a variety of contacts listed on the first page. However, they all seem to be casual exchanges of contact details with people at social events or store personnel, rather than close relatives/friends. Information on Japanese relatives etc. especially rarely appears.
家族関係も婚姻関係も子供も何もないということを書いてある。そして彼はそれに関して満足とのこと。: (「いずれにせよあたしには関係ないという立場で生きてこれたのは実は我が人生における最大の利点ではなかっただろうか?」「要するに目的とするもの、それに必要なことしかやらなかったというわけだ。この徹底はいい。」)
Mention that he does not have any family, any marriage,, and he says he is happy about that:
‘Wasn’t it actually one of the greatest advantages of my life to have lived with the attitude that nothing mattered to me anyway?’ ‘In short, I only did what I aimed for and what was necessary for that purpose. I like this strictness.”
自分の作品に対する自信、自己賞賛とかが結構見られる。逆に他のアーティストなどを批判というか、疑問に付している場面もある
Confidence in his own work and self-praise are quite often observed. There are also occasions when he criticises or questions other artists.
8150(日本語で背後霊と読み替えられる)というナンバーが彼の生活の中でたびたび現れることに注目している。人の電話番号や商品のコードなど。それが運命に関わっているスピリチュアルのなものなのか、と。
He notes that the number 8150 (which can be read in Japanese as ‘the ghost behind him’) appears frequently in his life ; people’s phone numbers, product codes, etc. He wonders if it is a spiritual thing related to his destiny.
まめにインターネットを確認している
He is checking internet frequently – sometimes annoyed by technical issues.
見た映画やBBC(狙って見たものもあれば、たまたまTvから流れてきたということも多いようだ)のメモがある。特に人間の精神や身体の科学、人間あるいは自然全体の真理に迫るような内容に惹かれている印象がある。
There are some notes on programmes and films he has watched (some of which he has aimed to watch, but many seem to have just happened to be streamed from Tv). I get the impression that he is particularly attracted to topics touching on the science of the human psyche and body, or the truth of the human or nature in general.
10月頃に日本の「戸塚」という人物orファミリー?と連絡をとっていたようだ。(近年の日記でこのように日本の人と連絡をとっているのは非常に珍しい。おそらく親族など近しかった人だと思われる。「ここに来て最大の変化は先日戸塚にTelをいれ日本側の状況を聞いたことではなかろうか。」お母様がいつ亡くなっていたかも知らなかったようで命日を初めて聞いたというような状況に思われる。戸塚、西蒲田、北海道という親族関係があるようである。(どれも地名か。。?)
It appears he was in contact with a person or family (?) called ‘Totsuka’ in Japan around October. (It is very unusual for a diary in these recent years to indicate contact with a person in Japan like this. Presumably they were relatives of him. ‘I think the biggest change since in these days is that the other day I telephoned Totsuka and asked him about the situation on the Japanese side.’, he notes. It appears he did not even know when his mother had died and was hearing about the anniversary of her death for the first time. The names of Totsuka, Nishi-Kamata and Hokkaido appear as the group of people he is related (not clarified, they all sound like place names in stead of surname?).
スプツニコ!という今となっては有名アーティストの女性、まだ彼女が学生の頃に12月に会っており、「手相がなかなかいい」と。作品についてもその行動力に感嘆していた。(出会った人々の手相読みのことは日記の頻出の話題の一つである)
Sputniko! a now famous Japanese artist, met him in December when she was still a student. He mentioned that her palm-reading indicate her talent. He was amazed at her energy to see her work too. (Palm reading of people he met is one of the frequent topics of his diary.)
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Works in this period
-He was making a costume for a performance, and it seems he Himself acted on stage too.
-spiral angel ((“The paradox of this work is interesting. The materials and structure are far from realistic, and not at all appropriate for that kind of thing, but the result is strangely realistic.”) 「この作品の持っているパラドックスは面白い。素材や構造は写実的なものからは程遠くそんなものには全くふさわしくないのだが結果として出来上がったものには妙なリアリティがある。」)
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その他示唆的な記述
I picked up some of the original texts:
「僕の作るもののすべてはその両極の奇妙な混在、パラドクスのエッジに立つものだ。」「(ひょっとしたら、これが僕の作るものに妙なリアリズムはあってもエロチックではないという現象の原因かも)」
(人との連絡が遠のいているということ、自分のやっていることのニッチさ、特殊性からくる孤独/孤高について語っている流れで)「ただひたすらに追求していけば、いずれギリギリのところまで行く。それがギリギリであるだけでに、本人以外の何者でもない深層が出る。この状態を一如と呼ぶわけだが、ここにある二者の不思議な溶解は説明しがたい。何しろ、これは無意識の中にある。」
(他のアーティストの批評の流れで)「アタシの場合、しばしば入手した素材から出る方向性に引っ張られるが、根底に「それをどう見るか、直観できるか」の心理的興味がある。」
About his work-
“Everything I make is a strange mix of those extremes, standing on the edge of a paradox.” “(Perhaps this is the reason for the phenomenon that everything I make has a strange realism but is not erotic.)”
In the context of talking about being out of touch with people, the niche nature of his work, and the solitude/isolation that comes from his particularity-
“If you just keep on pursuing it, You will eventually get to the edge of things. Just because it is on the edge, a depth that is nothing but the person himself comes out. This state of being is called ‘oneness’, but the curious dissolution of the two here is hard to explain. After all, this is in the unconscious.”
In critiques of other artists, the text in which we can see his art’s philosophy –
“I am often lead by the directions that what the material available suggest, but there is an underlying psychological interest in ‘then how you see it, how you can intuit it’.”
As in other journals, there are a variety of contacts listed on the first page. However, they all seem to be casual exchanges of contact details with people at social events or store personnel, rather than close relatives/friends. Information on Japanese relatives etc. especially rarely appears.
家族関係も婚姻関係も子供も何もないということを書いてある。そして彼はそれに関して満足とのこと。: (「いずれにせよあたしには関係ないという立場で生きてこれたのは実は我が人生における最大の利点ではなかっただろうか?」「要するに目的とするもの、それに必要なことしかやらなかったというわけだ。この徹底はいい。」)
Mention that he does not have any family, any marriage,, and he says he is happy about that:
‘Wasn’t it actually one of the greatest advantages of my life to have lived with the attitude that nothing mattered to me anyway?’ ‘In short, I only did what I aimed for and what was necessary for that purpose. I like this strictness.”
自分の作品に対する自信、自己賞賛とかが結構見られる。逆に他のアーティストなどを批判というか、疑問に付している場面もある
Confidence in his own work and self-praise are quite often observed. There are also occasions when he criticises or questions other artists.
8150(日本語で背後霊と読み替えられる)というナンバーが彼の生活の中でたびたび現れることに注目している。人の電話番号や商品のコードなど。それが運命に関わっているスピリチュアルのなものなのか、と。
He notes that the number 8150 (which can be read in Japanese as ‘the ghost behind him’) appears frequently in his life ; people’s phone numbers, product codes, etc. He wonders if it is a spiritual thing related to his destiny.
まめにインターネットを確認している
He is checking internet frequently – sometimes annoyed by technical issues.
見た映画やBBC(狙って見たものもあれば、たまたまTvから流れてきたということも多いようだ)のメモがある。特に人間の精神や身体の科学、人間あるいは自然全体の真理に迫るような内容に惹かれている印象がある。
There are some notes on programmes and films he has watched (some of which he has aimed to watch, but many seem to have just happened to be streamed from Tv). I get the impression that he is particularly attracted to topics touching on the science of the human psyche and body, or the truth of the human or nature in general.
10月頃に日本の「戸塚」という人物orファミリー?と連絡をとっていたようだ。(近年の日記でこのように日本の人と連絡をとっているのは非常に珍しい。おそらく親族など近しかった人だと思われる。「ここに来て最大の変化は先日戸塚にTelをいれ日本側の状況を聞いたことではなかろうか。」お母様がいつ亡くなっていたかも知らなかったようで命日を初めて聞いたというような状況に思われる。戸塚、西蒲田、北海道という親族関係があるようである。(どれも地名か。。?)
It appears he was in contact with a person or family (?) called ‘Totsuka’ in Japan around October. (It is very unusual for a diary in these recent years to indicate contact with a person in Japan like this. Presumably they were relatives of him. ‘I think the biggest change since in these days is that the other day I telephoned Totsuka and asked him about the situation on the Japanese side.’, he notes. It appears he did not even know when his mother had died and was hearing about the anniversary of her death for the first time. The names of Totsuka, Nishi-Kamata and Hokkaido appear as the group of people he is related (not clarified, they all sound like place names in stead of surname?).
スプツニコ!という今となっては有名アーティストの女性、まだ彼女が学生の頃に12月に会っており、「手相がなかなかいい」と。作品についてもその行動力に感嘆していた。(出会った人々の手相読みのことは日記の頻出の話題の一つである)
Sputniko! a now famous Japanese artist, met him in December when she was still a student. He mentioned that her palm-reading indicate her talent. He was amazed at her energy to see her work too. (Palm reading of people he met is one of the frequent topics of his diary.)
ーー
Works in this period
-He was making a costume for a performance, and it seems he Himself acted on stage too.
-spiral angel ((“The paradox of this work is interesting. The materials and structure are far from realistic, and not at all appropriate for that kind of thing, but the result is strangely realistic.”) 「この作品の持っているパラドックスは面白い。素材や構造は写実的なものからは程遠くそんなものには全くふさわしくないのだが結果として出来上がったものには妙なリアリティがある。」)
—
その他示唆的な記述
I picked up some of the original texts:
「僕の作るもののすべてはその両極の奇妙な混在、パラドクスのエッジに立つものだ。」「(ひょっとしたら、これが僕の作るものに妙なリアリズムはあってもエロチックではないという現象の原因かも)」
(人との連絡が遠のいているということ、自分のやっていることのニッチさ、特殊性からくる孤独/孤高について語っている流れで)「ただひたすらに追求していけば、いずれギリギリのところまで行く。それがギリギリであるだけでに、本人以外の何者でもない深層が出る。この状態を一如と呼ぶわけだが、ここにある二者の不思議な溶解は説明しがたい。何しろ、これは無意識の中にある。」
(他のアーティストの批評の流れで)「アタシの場合、しばしば入手した素材から出る方向性に引っ張られるが、根底に「それをどう見るか、直観できるか」の心理的興味がある。」
About his work-
“Everything I make is a strange mix of those extremes, standing on the edge of a paradox.” “(Perhaps this is the reason for the phenomenon that everything I make has a strange realism but is not erotic.)”
In the context of talking about being out of touch with people, the niche nature of his work, and the solitude/isolation that comes from his particularity-
“If you just keep on pursuing it, You will eventually get to the edge of things. Just because it is on the edge, a depth that is nothing but the person himself comes out. This state of being is called ‘oneness’, but the curious dissolution of the two here is hard to explain. After all, this is in the unconscious.”
In critiques of other artists, the text in which we can see his art’s philosophy –
“I am often lead by the directions that what the material available suggest, but there is an underlying psychological interest in ‘then how you see it, how you can intuit it’.”
