緊張しやすく人と喋るのが下手な私は、夜に写真を撮り始めた。中学生の頃にこっそりと夜中、家を飛び出し近所を歩いた時には闇に呑まれる感覚だった。別世界に飛び込んだ気がした。
張り詰めた静寂と同化するように、土地を徘徊していく。
日本の中央に位置する日本三大都市の一つ、名古屋を中心とする都市圏のことを中京圏と呼ぶ。中京とは、明治時代に東京と京都の中間に位置する名古屋をその二都市に劣らない都市にしようと当時の名古屋地域の人たちが提唱したらしい。以前は名古屋市を中心に半径30km圏内が中京圏とされていたが、今では交通便が良くなったことでエリアが年々と広がり、近年では私の生まれた町も含まれるようになった。私自身では愛知、三重、岐阜の東海三県にまたがる濃尾平野35km以内こそが中京であると漠然と思っており、今作品ではその円の中を歩いた。私自身この中京圏というものは生まれた時から過ごしてきたが、未だに掴むことのできない存在だ。
As someone who easily gets nervous and isn't good at talking to people, I began taking photos at night. When I was in middle school, I would secretly sneak out of the house late at night and walk around the neighborhood. It felt like being swallowed by the darkness. It was as though I had entered another world.
As I wandered through the area, I seemed to blend into the taut silence.
The region around Nagoya, one of Japan’s three major cities, is known as the Chūkyō region. The term "Chūkyō" refers to the area centered around Nagoya, which, during the Meiji era, was proposed by local residents as a city that could rival Tokyo and Kyoto, located between the two. Originally, the Chūkyō region was considered to be within a 30 km radius of Nagoya, but with improvements in transportation, the area has gradually expanded. In recent years, even my hometown has come to be considered part of it. Personally, I have always thought of the Chūkyō region as the Nōbi Plain within a 35 km radius, spanning Aichi, Mie, and Gifu in the Tokai area. In this work, I walked within that circle. Though I have lived in the Chūkyō region my entire life, it remains an elusive concept that I still cannot fully grasp.
張り詰めた静寂と同化するように、土地を徘徊していく。
日本の中央に位置する日本三大都市の一つ、名古屋を中心とする都市圏のことを中京圏と呼ぶ。中京とは、明治時代に東京と京都の中間に位置する名古屋をその二都市に劣らない都市にしようと当時の名古屋地域の人たちが提唱したらしい。以前は名古屋市を中心に半径30km圏内が中京圏とされていたが、今では交通便が良くなったことでエリアが年々と広がり、近年では私の生まれた町も含まれるようになった。私自身では愛知、三重、岐阜の東海三県にまたがる濃尾平野35km以内こそが中京であると漠然と思っており、今作品ではその円の中を歩いた。私自身この中京圏というものは生まれた時から過ごしてきたが、未だに掴むことのできない存在だ。
As someone who easily gets nervous and isn't good at talking to people, I began taking photos at night. When I was in middle school, I would secretly sneak out of the house late at night and walk around the neighborhood. It felt like being swallowed by the darkness. It was as though I had entered another world.
As I wandered through the area, I seemed to blend into the taut silence.
The region around Nagoya, one of Japan’s three major cities, is known as the Chūkyō region. The term "Chūkyō" refers to the area centered around Nagoya, which, during the Meiji era, was proposed by local residents as a city that could rival Tokyo and Kyoto, located between the two. Originally, the Chūkyō region was considered to be within a 30 km radius of Nagoya, but with improvements in transportation, the area has gradually expanded. In recent years, even my hometown has come to be considered part of it. Personally, I have always thought of the Chūkyō region as the Nōbi Plain within a 35 km radius, spanning Aichi, Mie, and Gifu in the Tokai area. In this work, I walked within that circle. Though I have lived in the Chūkyō region my entire life, it remains an elusive concept that I still cannot fully grasp.