Trauma
found objects and screen paint on vinyl
177x140cm and variable sizes
09–24–1953
I created a space where the eyes of the weak and the strong were together using two walls. It was intended to be able to become the strong and the weak according to the change in what space they are in and what they are looking at. This space makes me feel like I am in the water from one side and gives the effect of being out of the water from the other side. This work means that the existence of water was very familiar to me, but as I experienced a water drowning accident and had a trauma, I was eventually recognised as unfamiliar. The familiar objects found at the construction site were unfamiliarly combined and painted, which is a painting of a familiar construction site and people, but the reassemblage is unfamiliar. Thus, inspired by the word transposition, this installation expresses my unfamiliar experiences in abstract ways and various aspects in height and angles. The structure is seen from bottom to top, and this gaze is seen from top to bottom. I was inspired by the way I looked down at the weak from above in the Transposition work, and on the contrary, I thought about whether I had the experience of looking up from below. This work is expressed in the gaze’s height visually. So through the weak's gaze and the height I see, I expressed the eye-level of this structure from top to bottom and from bottom to top by making the installation differently. Leaning against the wall and lying on the floor are found objects, which were picked up at the site of an interrupted construction site. I painted the found objects that I observed from various perspectives and views. Inspired by the various perspectives about strangers, I played with these objects more spontaneously to make various angles and unconventional forms. It relates to my personal memory as well as these objects are mechanisms to remind things that symbolise people who have to leave their area.