アールト大学のコレクティブデザインの授業で制作したインスタレーション作品。課題テーマのLuxury とは、"至極快適で優雅な状態やごく稀にしか得られない喜びや幸福感"のことである。「瞬間との立ち会い」と「一回性のリズム」をコンセプトに、時間を忘れさせる一分時計を制作した。
天板は緩やかな凹凸のある超撥水加工を施したセラミックで、中心からずれたところに穴がある。この天板上に真鍮の蛇口から断続的に水が滴り、上を転がるように動いた後、穴に落ちていく。天板が一分に一回動くことで時の経過を知らせる。セメント塗装したステンレスの胴部には水やポンプ等の機械類が入っており、水の落ちる音や微なポンブ音を楽しむことができる。
人は何かの瞬間に出会うと少し得した気分になるものだが、この作品では一分に一度動く瞬間や水が穴に落ちていく瞬間を作り、Luxuryの定義である"稀に得られる喜び"を作った。また、水の不規則な動きで一回性のリズムを再現している。時を忘れてぼーっとできる時間はまさに"Luxury"な時間だろう。
“A flowing time,” is a one-minute-clock which makes you forget about time.
Luxury is a rarely attainable state of great comfort. That comfort comes to me when I see the vacant imagery that appears in the surface of water or a curtain waving in the wind. They have an organic rhythm that cannot be replicated. That unrepeatable rhythm is one of the key concepts of this piece. On the ceramic plate coated by a superhydrophobic spray, water droplets are moving with unrepeatable rhythm. You would vacantly look at it, your mind blank. It evokes the second concept, that of a moment. Seeing a moment such as streetlights turning on or a dead leaf falling off of a tree gives you a special feeling, seeing beauty in the mundane. When the water drops in the hole and the ceramic plate routinely makes its minute-turn, you know that time is passing, and in that time you are experiencing an irreplaceable moment, one of subtle, serene pleasure.
Luxury is a rarely attainable state of great comfort. That comfort comes to me when I see the vacant imagery that appears in the surface of water or a curtain waving in the wind. They have an organic rhythm that cannot be replicated. That unrepeatable rhythm is one of the key concepts of this piece. On the ceramic plate coated by a superhydrophobic spray, water droplets are moving with unrepeatable rhythm. You would vacantly look at it, your mind blank. It evokes the second concept, that of a moment. Seeing a moment such as streetlights turning on or a dead leaf falling off of a tree gives you a special feeling, seeing beauty in the mundane. When the water drops in the hole and the ceramic plate routinely makes its minute-turn, you know that time is passing, and in that time you are experiencing an irreplaceable moment, one of subtle, serene pleasure.
