妻の誕生日の贈り物として鳥の木彫を。単純に彼女のイメージといえば「鳥」だからなのだけど、そもそもそれはどうしてなのだろうとも思う。歌うから？彼女は歌う詩人であるけど、難解で観念的な現代詩とは遠い。いつも歌という土地の上に咲いているように感じる。
「私は頭で書かない。体で書く」と言う彼女自身の言葉どおりだと感じる。ある意味、そんな彼女の言葉に背中を押されて作るイメージ。肌で、体で感じたもので。言葉で裏付けはできないけれども、鳥の他に「火」という要素も彼女に感じる。
某東急ハンズの木材コーナーで、この材と目が合った。節の現れ方が妙にエロティックに思えて、この鳥のイメージがすぐに浮かんだ。少し嘴を削り出すだけで顔が現れてきた。目が赤いのも「火の鳥」にはちょうどいい。
I made a wooden sculpture for my wife's birthday. Why this has bird's form is because simply my image of her. But I still wonder why this image. Since she sings? She is a poet singing. Her poem is very far from contemporary poetry complicated, idealistic. I feel that her pieces are like blooming flowers on the land of song. She once said "I don't write with mind, I write physically". This word encourages me to use physical feeling in making image. I can not explain this feeling with any word, but I feel she has a element of fire.
One day in material shop I met with this wood piece's gaze. I immediately got image of this bird, so part of joint looks something beautiful. Soon bird's face has appeared after I sculpted bill part a little. It seems like just Fire bird with red eye.
