場所の記憶をフォトコラージュによって写し出す

八木仁志は「居場所とは何か」をテーマにコラージュ技法の新たな視覚的表現に取り組んでいる。

彼の創作の動機は日本庭園を鑑賞した際の体験だ。京都にある大徳寺の黄梅院は四季折々の景色と苔庭が美しいお寺である。ここで苔に落ちた複数の落葉に目が留まる。それらはただの落ち葉の集まりだが庭全体の時間の流れを作り上げていた。奈良にある依水園は名勝に指定される回遊式庭園だ。遠くに見える若草山や隣接する東大寺南大門が庭をはるかに広い空間に感じさせた。八木がこれらの日本庭園で体感したのは「自分が全体の一部である」という感覚だった。この感覚を手がかりに現在は街をモチーフにコラージュ作品を展開させている。 街には多くの他人が存在し、それぞれの目的に向かい進んでいる。建造物もまた我々の知らないところでスクラップアンドビルドに変化し続けている。彼は街の景色に日本庭園の時間性と空間性を重ね居場所の視覚的表現を試みている。

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Hitoshi Yagi is exploring new visual expressions through collage techniques, with a central theme of “What is a place to belong?”

His creative journey was ignited by an experience he had while appreciating a Japanese garden. The Obai-in Temple of Daitoku-ji Temple in Kyoto is a beautiful temple with seasonal scenery and a moss garden. At this point, several fallen leaves on the moss caught his eye. They were just a collection of fallen leaves, but they created the flow of time throughout the garden. Isuien Garden in Nara is a strolling garden designated as a place of scenic beauty. The view of Mt. Wakakusa in the distance and the adjacent Nandaimon gate of Todaiji Temple made the garden feel much larger. What Yagi experienced in these Japanese gardens was the feeling of “being part of the whole.” Taking this feeling as a clue, he is currently developing collage works using the city as a motif.

There are many strangers in the city, each moving toward their own goals. Buildings are also continuing to change into scrap-and-build structures without us even realizing it. He attempts to visually express a place of belonging by layering the temporality and spatiality of a Japanese garden on a cityscape.