Artworks

落書演習　1981年

「自動記述」とでも言うべきか、心に浮かぶことば〈漢字語〉を、企らまざる筆蝕、成り行きまかせの構成で次々書き綴り紙面をうめていった。周囲を墨で汚すことによって、意識と前意識のあわいから生まれた雑多な単語の落書が、ひとつの完結した語彙集として姿を現わした。

A Scribble Exercise, 1981

In what might better be called “automatic writing,” I filled the page with words (kanji words) that came into my mind one after another, the brushstrokes unplanned in a composition left to chance. By smearing the surrounding area with sumi ink, the scribbles of miscellaneous words that appeared between the conscious and preconscious mind took shape as a complete vocabulary.