『長い典具帖紙が海風に暴れていた。生活の為切り出された岩壁と信仰の歴史を孕む石像の群れ、積み石。

我々もまた自然の一部として当然そこに相対している。

住人、訪問者達が絶え間無く地表を擽る。それに呼応する様に海風は吹く。』

山と海に囲まれ採石場で栄えた歴史を持つ千葉県南房総金谷地区にて、１か月間滞在し取材・制作した映像作品。やや寂れてはいるものの、当時の繁栄の片鱗がそこかしこに見られる。冷たく切り立つ岩壁と濃厚な緑に吹きさらす海風の静と動、地域を飲み込まんばかりとする自然と作者を含めた小さな人々との対比を白昼夢的に描いた作品。

”Long sheets of liturgical paper were raging in the sea breeze. Rock walls quarried for daily life, groups of stone statues filled with the history of faith, and piles of stones.

We, too, are a part of nature.

Residents and visitors tickled the surface of the earth incessantly. The sea breeze blows in response.”

This video work was produced during a one-month stay in the Kanaya district of Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, which is surrounded by mountains and the sea and has a history of prosperity as a quarry. Although the area is somewhat desolate, glimpses of the prosperity of the time can be seen here and there. The work is a daydream-like depiction of the contrast between nature, which threatens to swallow up the region, and the people, including the artist, who are exposed to the stillness and movement of the sea wind against the cold, steep rock walls and thick greenery.