ケント紙に鉛筆, 257mm × 364mm, 2002年 ／ Pencil on paper, 257mm × 364mm, 2002.

1999年に、名古屋の画廊で「基体視線ーSUBSTANCITE」というタイトルの個展をやりました。画廊の床上60cmのところに水平に塩化ビニール膜を張りめぐらし、お客さんは、キャスター付の台車にあおむけに寝ころび、先端にゴムのついた櫂で床を漕いで進みます。塩化ビニール膜にはいろいろな画像が熱転写でプリントしてあって、上方からもれてくるわずかな透過光によってその画像が浮かびあがります。この個展をやってみてわかったのは、「好きな距離から作品を見られる」ということがいかに大事かということでした。見る人と作品の距離は強制的に一定に固定され、しかも視野に入る画像しか認識できない……この状態は、人によってはかなり苦しいもので、見たあと、「つらい、苦しい、二度と見たくない」とおっしゃった方もおられました。もうしわけないことです……。

I held a private exhibition at an art gallery of Nagoya in 1999. The title of the exhibition is called "SUBSTANCITE", this word composed "substance" and "site". I set up a film made by vinyl chloride around the altitude of 60 centimeters on the floor of the art gallery. The visitor enters using a board which works in casters, lying on his/her back, from the entrance. He/She holds a wooden stick with the rubber in both hands, and he/she pushes the floor with these sticks and advances before. On a vinyl chloride film, various images are printed by heat transcription. Slight light shines from upper-side and lets those images rise in visitor's site. I understood by this exhibition that, it is very important that a person can watch a work from favorite distance. The distance from a person to the images is fixed forcibly in this case. In addition, the field of vision of a person is limited. A certain people feels very uncomfortably at this forced state. ”Hard!, painful!, not to want to see twice!”,this is the words that a person who saw my work said. I felt that I really am sorry.