水織
水を織る
波を観る
石を聴く
心を照す
時を舞う
海と湖、ふたつの「うみ」地図をひらくと 相似の輪郭で向かい合う 淡路島と琵琶湖。淡路・沼島は古事記における国生みの地。琵琶は古代湖、幾層の時を宿す水域。陸と空、陰と陽、動と静、過去と未来、時空が伸び縮みするような旅路の中で写真は波長を語り、香は記憶の粒子を手繰る。それらの響きが、あわいに位置する京都で ほどけ、縦と横という水の糸により ふたたび出逢い直す。
Mizu-Ori — Weaving Water
Weaving water
Watching waves
Listening to stone
Clarifying the heart
Letting the senses dance through time
sea and lake. Awaji Island and Lake Biwa mirror each other’s contours. In Japanese myth, Nushima off Awaji rises first from the hush; Lake Biwa—the first lake—cradles time in layered depths.Land and sky, yin and yang, flux and repose, past and future— we traveled with the feeling that space and time stretched and folded. Photographs speak in wavelengths; scent gathers the grains of memory. Here in Kyoto—the in-between of Awaji and Biwa—these resonances loosen and are rewoven on the vertical and horizontal threads of water.
淡路島・沼島
淡路島にある沼島で鶴田真由が撮影をし、その地質の一部でもある石英から沙里が香を抽出。沼島にある上立神岩には「古事記」の中でイザナギノミコトとイザナミノミコトが天沼矛（あめのぬぼこ）で海をかき混ぜ、そこから滴り落ちて出来た島という伝承がある。あの世とこの世が行き交う黄昏時と彼は誰時（かわたれどき）に、その場所の海面の撮影をした。すると、まだ形にならぬ神代の絵姿が浮かび上がってきた。 神代と人代の重なるその海には幾重にも積み重なる時の層がある。
Nushima, part of Awaji Island
Mayu Tsuruta photographed on Nushima, a small island off Awaji.From quartz, a mineral that forms part of the island’s ancient geology,Sari extracted fragrance―a scent distilled from the memory of stone.On Nushima stands Kamidate-Kamiiwa,a sacred rock said in the Kojiki to mark the place where Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto stirred the sea with the Ame-no-Nuboko, the Heavenly Spear,and from the droplets that fell, the islands were born.At twilight―tasogare-doki―and again at the liminal hour between worlds, kawatare-doki,Mayu Tsuruta captured the surface of the sea.There, faintly, emerged he still-unformed visage of the divine age.In that sea, where the realm of the gods and the age of humans overlap,lie countless layers of time,one upon another.
現在・過去・未来の重なり 時間を外した時間の層 壮大な記憶の集積 混沌から世界が生まれる
Layers of time — present, past, and future A stratum of time beyond time A vast accumulation of memory. From chaos, the world is born.
地球誕生物語とその最期 海はその全てを包括する
The story of Earth’s birth and it‘s final end, the sea embracing all within its depths.
天と地との交流は 新しい未来を描き出す
In the communion of heaven and earth, a new future is born — ever drawn upon the mirror of the sky.
琵琶湖
撮影は幽玄の気配漂う湖北にて行い、香は湖水に育つ淡水真珠より抽出。約４００万年前に起源をもつ淡海の海。琵琶湖。地殻の変転により移ろいつつも、その記憶の堆積は今なお湖水に刻まれる。綾なす色は天からとどく光を縦糸に、水のゆらめきによって織なされてゆく。生物が進化しながら生きる場所。
Biwa-Lake
The photography took place in Hokubu, the northern reaches of the lake, where the air is suffused with a sense of the mysterious and the profound. The fragrance was extracted from freshwater pearls, born and nurtured in the lake’s waters. This is Lake Biwa―the ancient “淡海 (Awami no Umi)” whose origins trace back some four million years. Though the earth’s crust has shifted and transformed, its layers of memory remain,still inscribed within the waters. The shimmering hues are woven―light descending from the heavens as warp,the ripples of water as weft. A realm where life evolves, and continues to live.
溶け合い 照らされ また生まれる
The place where life is born, the place where life returns. Mingling, illuminated—born once more.
古代湖の記憶は 命の痕跡をとどめ 種を生む
The memory of an ancient lake holds the traces of life and brings forth seed.
沼島の「石英の奏でる音」を琵琶湖に浮かぶ竹生島の「弁財天の霊水」にサイマティクスという器械を通して転写し映し出された紋様。何もない水面に紋様が浮かび上がってくる様は、まるで「無」から「有」が生まれ出ずる神秘に立ち会っているかのよう。
Through a cymatics device,the resonance of quartz from Nushima was transcribed onto the sacred water of Benzaiten from Chikubujima on Lake Biwa. Upon the still surface, patterns arose—as if witnessing the birth of being from the void, the silent emergence of form from nothingness.
Mayu Tsuruta Photography 