WORKS_2013-14: you are here







artery and vein 
2014
ink on tracing paper
87.8 x 61.4 cm








you are here 
2013-14
5 -チャンネル オーディオビジュアル インスタレーション
Five Channel Audio-visual Installation
映像・サウンド
鐘崎(福岡)、沖ノ島、対馬(長崎)、影島(釜山)、下道里(済州島)
Film and Sound footage from: 
Kanezaki(Fukuoka), Okinoshima Island, Tsushima Island(Nagasaki)
Yeong-do Island(Busan), Hado-ri(Jeju)






                                                                              





                                                                      Photo: Shintaro Yamanaka
you are here 
2013-14
ドローイングインスタレーション
Drawing Installation
鐘崎(福岡)、沖ノ島、対馬(長崎)、影島(釜山)、下道里(済州島)の海より採取した海水と海塩/ケント紙
with sea salt and sea water from:
Kanezaki(Fukuoka), Okinoshima Island, Tsushima Island(Nagasaki)
Yeong-do Island(Busan), Hado-ri(Jeju)/Ken paper


  



This is the latest work from the ongoing project exploring the living culture of Sea Women nurtured in the sea between Japan and Korea as shown in the first drawing. Five screens are placed based on the geographical location of each divers' villages along the strait. Each of them screening a moving image showing what I would call a record of my journey including a footage of an Udo Island diver singing for me the Jeju-Haenyeo Anti Japanese Song written by her father while being imprisoned for political activity. The journey was inspired by numbers of personal histories and memories of physical experiences signaling the simple, yet complex human activity and emotional landscapes across the sea. The sounds are played respectively from speakers set above each screen. The screens are surrounded by large scale drawings created solely by crystallizing the salt and sea-water collected from each locations, transforming the exhibition space into an imaginary strait that one can walk along, imagining the lands seen from the sea.