LIFEORIGIN

「生命源」LIFE ORIGINという言葉は、当時よく聴いていた喜多郎さんのアルバムの中からもらいました。この作品は、私の父が昔住んでいた家の前で目撃したUFOの話を父からきいて、想像力をふくらませて描いたものです。父の見たUFOは、見かけの大きさが30cmくらいもある巨大な楕円形で、水銀灯のように白銀色に輝き、周囲の空間全体に真っ白なスパークを放ちながら夜空をすうっと飛行していったといいます。あとで宇宙人にこの円盤のことをきくと、『神様の円盤です』との答があったそうです。神様とは、すなわち宇宙創造神のことではないか……するとそれはすなわち全ての生命の源ではなかろうか……と想像をふくらませ、結局こんな作品になりました。
この作品は、フタロシアニンブルーと白だけで描かれています。フタロシアニンブルーは透明色で、浅い水色から深い紺色まで、藍染めのように一色でさまざまな色合いの「青」を出すことができ、他の色の上に重ねると水底のような雰囲気も出るので、当時、偏執的に愛用しました。白い楕円の周囲の模様は、面相筆で濃い青の上に描いたもので、神（中央の白い楕円で象徴）からあらゆる生命が誕生していく姿を表わしています。生命は、それぞれが独自の輝きを放ちながらも、隣りあう他の生命と相互に干渉しあってその姿を変化させつつこの宇宙に、無限に広がっていきます。
この作品は、シリーズ化していろいろなバージョンを作りたかったのですが、おそろしく時間がかかるため、この一枚でおしまいになってしまいました。ほんとに宇宙と生命はふしぎです。

The word "LIFE ORIGIN"(source of the life), I took this word from an album of Kitaro which I listened well in those days that I was making this work. I pictured this work with my imagination based on the story which is about the UFO that my father watched at the house where we lived. The UFO which my father watched, was a white silver, shined like a mercury lamp, was the huge oval that apparent size is as for around 30cm, radiated pure white sparks in the whole neighboring space, and glided smoothly in the night sky. My father said in this way. He asked later to the space people, and their answer was that the UFO which my father watched is that of God. I thought the "God" in this story, is the creator of this universe, is the origin of all life in this world. I think so, and made this work.
I used only two colors, phthalocyanine blue and white, in this work. Phthalocyanine blue is a transparent color, and using this, I can make many blue colors, from pale blue like water, to deep blue like the night sky. And I use this color on the another color, it looks like a something under the water. Because of these effects, I would became a paranoiac user of this color these days. As for the figures around the white oval, I drew them using a slender brush, and these figures mean the every life which were born and were unfolded from God (symbolized with a central white oval). The life that was born will be spreading in this universe infinitely with not only its own brightness but also with its meddling with life next to each other, and with changing its figure.
I wanted to serialize this work and make various versions, but it has been for an end with this one piece because it needs terrible amount of time. This universe and the life are really mysterious.