STATEMENT
アートのコンセプトは「弱き者たちの声」「調和・共生」
人間の歴史において、文明や経済の発展の陰で常に差別され犠牲になる「見えない」人々の問題がある。テクノロジーは進化し、街もどんどん綺麗になっていくが、そのために排除されたり、独自の文化を持ちながら存在する権利を認められず差別、迫害されたり、声すらあげられず歴史から消えていく人々もいる。
マイノリティや弱者と言われる人々は、社会のおけるマジョリティ、社会的地位や権力のある方が一方的に抑圧し、自分たちの集団の存在感やエゴを満たすために、意図的に認めることを拒否し、差別されている現実がある。
たまたま恵まれた環境に生まれてきた者、たまたま恵まれた地位に就けた者たちによって、優劣の価値観を押し付けられ、生活を制限され抑圧されることはあまりに理不尽で、基本的人権の侵害でしかない。歴史上、そのような安心して生きる権利を勝ち取るために、声をあげて血を流す運動は数多く行われてきたが、現在でもその状況は変わらない。
では、恵まれない環境に生まれてきた者たちは粗末に扱われて良いのだろうか？
また不本意な環境や事故などによって酷く傷付き、社会から挫折した弱者と言われる人たちは、仕方なく人生を諦めるしかないのだろうか？
私は自らの人生において、このような理不尽な侮辱や差別を数多く経験してきた。
不遇な環境やハンデ、不本意なものを抱えた者は生きてはいけないのだろうか？
一度社会で挫折し傷付いた者は、そのまま人生を諦めなければならないのだろうか？
生まれてくる人間一人ひとりに、普く生きる権利があるのならば、どんなに少数派でも、どんなに役立たずでも、どんなに傷付いてでも、安心して当たり前の生活を送る権利があるはずである。
一般的にこう言った声は恵まれた人たちによって「面倒臭いもの」「厄介者」として処理され、見過ごされる傾向にある。果たしてこれが平等な美しい世界なのだろうか？
声を上げられない「弱き者」たちの声を動物などの姿で表し、役立たずでも厄介者でも、どんな存在でも生きていける社会になることを願い、創作活動を行う。
The concept of the art is "Voices of the Weak." "Harmony and symbiosis"
In the history of mankind, there has always been the problem of the "invisible" people who are discriminated and sacrificed behind the development of civilization and economy. Technology is evolving and cities are becoming more and more beautiful, but because of this, some people are excluded, some people are discriminated against and persecuted because their right to exist is not recognized even though they have their own culture, and some people disappear from history because they cannot even speak up.
The reality is that minorities and those who are considered to be weak are unilaterally suppressed by the majority in society, those with social status and power, who deliberately refuse to acknowledge and discriminate against them in order to satisfy their own group's sense of existence and ego.
It is so unreasonable and a violation of basic human rights to have superior and inferior values imposed on us, restricting and oppressing our lives by those who happen to be born into a privileged environment or who happen to have a privileged position. Throughout history, there have been many movements that have raised their voices and shed their blood in order to win the right to live in peace, but the situation today is no different.
So, should those who are born into disadvantaged circumstances be treated poorly?
Or should those who are severely damaged by an unfavorable environment or an accident, and who are considered weak by society, have no choice but to give up on life?
I have experienced many such unreasonable insults and discrimination in my own life.
Can't those with unfavorable circumstances, disadvantages, or unwillingness to live?
Should those who have been failed and hurt by society give up on life?
If each and every human being born has the right to live a normal life, then no matter how minority, how useless, or how damaged they are, they should have the right to live a normal life in peace.
In general, these voices tend to be overlooked by the privileged, dismissed as "troublesome" or "nuisances. Is this really a beautiful, equal world?
I express the voices of the "weak" who cannot speak up in the form of animals and other forms, and create works in the hope of creating a society in which all beings can live, no matter how useless or troublesome they are.
