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Shadows on analogue artworks ?

Date : 2015.02.04

Category : 一般

playing with "shadow x sketch" pic.twitter.com/U9gEshNN8m

— Aki (@diceproj) 2015, 2月 3

today from a certain opinion on twitter, I remember what i had learnt at ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts) – defects can be fun.

the opinion was roughly saying that “when we take a picture of our analogue artworks (and upload it on twitter), we must remove/avoid any shadows/obstacles interrupting the artworks in the picture”.

I doubted it. I thought that unexpected shadows are one of the biggest attractive aspects of analogue artworks.(indeed sometimes they are really annoying when I want to edit & modify on photoshop, but still “it is analogue”.)

Then I remembered an experience in Switzerland…
when I had been making a collage handbook, I used too much glue, and the pages had been stuck each other. I was disappointed, but my awesome classmates and teachers saw it and said “that’s interesting”. “that’s beautiful, leave it and go ahead”. I was surprised and could not believe them at that moment. but gradually I have understood that is the way artistic/creative people think.

That’s creative, cheerful and positive of them because they can immediately find out tiny interests and fun in ‘failures/defects’. So clever … I want to be like them.

well, just I have to say thank you a lot to awesome people in Switzerland.

アナログ画の影

Date : 2015.02.03

Category : 一次創作

へー？っておもって遊んでたら、なんか新しい可能性を見出した pic.twitter.com/jvX0uaRlaR

— Akira Hotaka (@akira0t) 2015, 2月 3

おしごとから帰ってきてついったー見たら、「アナログ絵を撮影してTwitter載せるのに、影や余計なものの写り込みを気にしないってどうなの？ﾌｼﾞﾌｼﾞｺ」っていう意見があったので。「は？」っておもって遊んでるうちに面白くなっちゃったっていう

スイスの芸大を思い出したの。あそこで出会った人々なら、撮影したアナログ絵に映り込んだ影すら「that’s interesting」っていうだろうと。課題で小冊子作ってた時、ページ同士くっついて開かなくなっちゃったーって嘆いてたら、それすらも「that’s interesting」「that’s beautiful」「that’s ok, go ahead」。アートな人たちって、こういうとこ物凄く前向きだとおもう。こっちが欠陥だと思い込んでた事にも、なにかしらの面白さを見出してしまう。

そして「I like it」同様、素敵な言葉だよね。「That’s interesting」。すかさず面白さをみつけて提案できる人ってすごい。そうなりたいもんだ。

…あれ言った人は、楽しむ余裕が無かったのかも。