●友人紹介＜あかりのオブジェ＞ AKIO-MURASAWA 村澤明生・空生[うつぎ]工房紹介

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Combination of stone with lights. Lights were dirived from spherical candle in water (Ankou, anglefish), light bulb or flame in vegetable oil (Akari).
Files "Light2 and Light3" photographed the work, which were designed for guest house of SUMITOMO Electric industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN
"A Reed Under the Moon"
"Ankou", URASENKE KONNICHI-AN, Kyoto, JAPAN

Water Combination of stones with water.
"Underground River", Granite
"Scene through Water", Andesite & Granite

Nanbu Works were located in Nanbu primary school, Nagano, JAPAN, in 1996
-a)Capsule
Time Capsule, which will be opened fifty years later.
-b)Others
An objet, in the ground of school
-c)Owls
At entrance gates of the school, Owls are looking after schoolchildren.
When pupils grarudate, they might reach the height of a child owl.

Furniture
The furnitures, using old steels and old whisky barrels made by white oak.
The Tansu, dresser, imitates an owl, whose eyes and noses were constructed from stones.

Garden
-a)Mr_E
The garden of Mr. E's office. The mosses were also implanted.
-b)Mr_S
The garden of Prof. S's resort house in highlands, Yatsugatake, JAPAN.
Almost all parts of the garden was made through almost one year efforts.

Tokorozawa:
"Conversation with Land", Tokorozawa Openspace Park, JAPAN, in 1981

Yoshikawa
Objet of owl, situated in the ground of Yohikawa junior high school, in Nagano, JAPAN.
This is a present from pupils who graduated this school in 1999, to youger pupils.

Tronto The works were made in 1984.
-a)Canon
The works were in the following places;
Japanese Canadian Cultural Center, Toronto, CANADA,
CANON CANADA Inc., Mississauga, CANADA
-b)"Dialogue"
The works were made from nine pink granites, located in Ontario Place, CANADA
They were dedicated to the people of Ontario, in commemoration of the Bicentennial, by the Tronto Japanese Association of Commerce and Industry.
Comment about the "Dialogue" is in bottom.
-c)Install; Installing the works to Ontario Place
-d)Material; (see below)
-e)Working; Preparing the "Dialogue" in Toronto.

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** Comment about the "Dialogue" **

Works of sculpture cannot be considered as belonging simply to the category of visual art．I wish to setup, as an experience, a communication between people and my works；and，bearing in mind this prior consideration of mine, Ontario Place is an extremely good spot．For this reason too, I am honoured and grateful from the bottom of my heart for being given the opportunity to undertake this work．
In that Ontario Place has a certain character, and considering the importance of communication between audience and work，I have designed a work which can be "experienced" or with which a "dialogue" is possible，through such body contact movements as casually touching，climbing, or sitting on it．
The rock cut for this purpose from the face of the earth is no more than a small fragment of a greatland-mass; but it has watched continuously the history of this country. As it faces towards the future my purpose has been to carve on it the new time to come. Thus I already have presentiments of the dialogues it will be having with people from time to time．In the context of the present day, with its amazing progress in science and technology, I think that simple dialogue is called for，to a greater extent than heretofore，both among mankind and between mankind and nature．
The rock has continued to exist mutely for an inconceivable age. But when man superimposes himself on it，it is not to be perceived as some other kind of human artifact, but as a vehicle for experiencing its own profound tranquillity. Further，the tangible warmth of the stone when it has caught the sun, and the cleanness of it when it has been drenched with rain, inevitably remind us of the blessings of Nature．
It is my belief that without a dialogue with Nature mankind cannot share in its glory.

(Akio Murasawa, 1984)

The explanation was written by (his intimate friend);
Tohru Tateishi, M.D., Ph.D.
SUKIGARA CLINIC (Internal Medicine)
1-24 Suzuka-cho, Iida-City, Nagano, 395-0084, JAPAN

mail ; tate@avis.ne.jp

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