SPRING SUMMER 2023

Talking Water

 
Talking Water
Talking water. Can’t you catch water’s sensitivity, between its paradoxes? Life and death, light and shadow, a moment and eternity, healing and threat. Even eroticism. Perhaps it is precisely because of its capacity to embed together purity and impurity that water’s “symbiosis with contradiction” is so appealing. There are always eclectic contradictions and conflicts among individuals and societies. Whenever we take nature as inspiration, it always influences our sense of values, transcending design’s framework. We would like to think about accepting and coexisting with both people and nature, rather than controlling it, as we are full of inspiration that lets us understand the world.
水との対話。パラドックスに満ちた、彼等の感性を汲み取れないか。生と死、光と影、一瞬と永遠、癒しと脅威。エロティシズムまで。清濁併せ呑めるからこそ、「矛盾との共生」が魅力的に映るのだろう。個人や社会においても様々な矛盾や紛争は絶えない。そんな時、自然をインスピレーションにすると、いつもデザインの枠組みを越えて価値観に影響を与えてくれる。人も自然もコントロールするのではなく、受け入れて共生する事こそ世界を理解するためのインスピレーションになると考えている。