2023 SA Collection "LIFE is A VOYAGE"
2023 SA Collection
"LIFE is A VOYAGE"
人生は航海だ。
THE PATH YOU WALK BECOMES A MAP.
通った道が地図となる
ここ最近何年か、様々な分岐点が自分にもあって
みんなにも沢山の節目や分岐点があったと思うんだけど。
その時ふと、「航海みたいだな。どこへ漂流するかわからないけど大きな旅をしているみたいだ」そう思った。
”人生は航海だ”
その時このワードが浮かんだ。
２年前に比べたらようやく世界へ足を運べるようになった。
世界は広すぎて、まだ見ぬ世界しかない。
最近はドキュメンタリーを観漁っている。
知らない民族や文化、世界、紛争、問題を目の当たりにし”地球”は１つで同じ人間なのに全く違う”世界”を知る。
私にとってそのことは大きな”点”となる。
その点が線になり、やがて全て結ばれ形になっていく事を経験した事があったからだ。
”通った道が地図となる”
その時にこの事を思った。
沢山の場所に点を打っていき、やがて面（形）にし、私はその経験を、感動を、知恵を、想いを伝えていきたい。
全ての人が、通った道は全て自分の地図となり、様々な困難に直面しそれを乗り越えることで自己成長を遂げていく。
自らが道を切り拓き、自分らしい航海をすることが大切だというメッセージを込めた。
今回のテーマで”言葉を操る魔女航海士”を主人公にした。
言葉を操り様々な局面を超えていき、自分の意志で船を進め航海を続ける魔女をイメージして洋服を制作した。
本当に言葉というのもは時に魔法のように自分の身体の中に沁み入り循環しやがて脳に溶け込み活力になったり励みになったり時に慰めになったりもする。
言葉は時に鋼のように鋭く傷つけるものであったり、暴力的であったりもする。
いわば”魔法”のようなものだと思う。
その”魔法”は誰もが持っていて使い方次第だ。
それから魔女は中世ヨーロッパにさかのぼるとその時代には非常に悪い存在とされていたが、私は魔女という言葉をポジティブに、「独立」や「挑戦」「自己実現」や「精神的な向上」という意味を込めた。
そんな想いで制作した色々な”魔女”たちを。
詩を。物語を。
見ながら、読みながら想像して楽しんでもらいたい。
"Enjoy your own personal Voyage".
In recent years, there have been many turning points for me.
I'm sure everyone else has had many milestones and crossroads as well.
At that time, I suddenly thought, "It's like a voyage. I don't know where I'm going to drift off to, but it's like a big journey.
Life is a voyage."
That's when this word came to mind.
Compared to two years ago, I finally got to visit the world.
The world is too big, and there is only the world I have yet to see.
Recently, I have been watching documentaries.
I see people, cultures, worlds, conflicts, and problems that I never knew existed, and I learn about a completely different "world," even though we are all the same people with one "Earth.
For me, that was a big "dot".
I had experienced that the dots became lines, and eventually they were all connected and took shape.
The path you take becomes a map.
I thought of this at the time.
I would like to share my experiences, my impressions, my wisdom, and my thoughts by dotting many places and eventually forming them into a surface (shape).
Every person's path becomes their own map, and they grow by facing and overcoming various difficulties.
The message of this project is that it is important to carve out one's own path and navigate in one's own unique way.
For this theme, we chose a "witch navigator who manipulates words" as the main character.
The clothes were created with the image of a witch who manipulates words to transcend various aspects of her life and continues to navigate her ship according to her own will.
Words are like magic, sinking into our bodies, circulating, and eventually melting into our brains, giving us vitality, encouragement, and sometimes comfort.
Words can sometimes be as sharp and hurtful as steel, or even violent.
They are like "magic," so to speak.
Everyone has that "magic" and it depends on how they use it.
Witches were considered very bad in medieval Europe, but I took the word "witch" and gave it a positive connotation, meaning "independence," "challenge," "self-realization," and "spiritual improvement.
With this in mind, I created a variety of "witches.
Poems. Stories.
I hope that you will enjoy imagining while looking at and reading them.
"Enjoy your own personal Voyage".