「日々のやるべきことを着々とこなしていく。目の前には似たような土があって、今日もそれを食べて、排泄する。
それだけを繰り返す人生だと割り切って生きることは簡単だけれども、自分が地表に還したものが大地にもたらす影響を無視することはできない。わかるでしょう?全てに無関係であることなんてできないんだ。」
分かりあえないと思っているものを理解しようという試みとして、蚊・ムカデ・ダニ・ミミズなど、害虫と呼ばれてしまっているものたちの環世界と人間の環世界を少し近づけてみようとしています。中央部は水彩です。ベースは木製パネルなので、壁掛けが可能です。画材を使用して土部分を制作しているので強度はありますが、ほこりなどが心配な場合は額装をおすすめします。
"I steadily go about my daily business. I have similar soil in front of me every day, and I eat it and excrete it again today. It would be easy to live my life with the assumption that I am just repeating this, but I cannot ignore the effect that what I return to the earth's surface has on the earth. You know, there's no way I can just exist as a being who has nothing to do with everything."
To understand things we thought we could not understand, I am trying to bring the "Umwelt" of mosquitoes, centipedes, ticks, worms, and other things that we call pests a little closer to the Umwelt of human beings.
The central part is watercolor painting.
*Unwelt: the world as it is experienced by a particular organism. Unwelt is usually translated as "self-centered world". (plural: umwelten; from the German Umwelt meaning "environment" or "surroundings")
Uexküll theorised that organisms can have different umwelten, even though they share the same environment.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The base of this artwork is a wooden panel that can be hung on the wall. Since the clay part was made using painting materials, it is strong, but I recommend framing if you are worried about dust.