共通の時間システムの中で生活していても、時間経過の感覚は共通とは限りません。1分がとても長く、1時間が一瞬に感じたことはありませんか?
白から黒へと変化していく11個のプレートを自分の時間を示す目盛とし、様々な人に今の色を聞きました。10歳くらいの少年は「早く大人になりたいから」と限りなく黒に近い色を選び、高齢の女性は「まだまだ元気だから」と限りなく白に近い色を選びました。中には「有から無に向かっているようだから」と、時間の流れる方向は黒から白なのではないかと解釈した人もいました。
十人十色の時間感覚。一年365日、一日24時間という一方向で時間を計るのではなく、往来可能な主観的な時間を計ります。
Even though we live in a common time system, we don’t necessarily feel the passage of time the same way. Have you ever felt that a minute is so long and an hour is so soon?
The 11 plates that change from white to black are scales to measure your personal time. People choose a colour to indicate the current time in their lives, based on their thoughts or experiences, not on a common system. A boy of about 10 chose a colour close to black because he wants to grow up as soon as possible, and an elderly woman chose a colour close to white because she still feels young and vibrant. There was even a man who thought that the scale started from black to white because it seemed that they were going from full to nothing.
A sense of time can be free and unique to each individual. This is a tool for measuring subjective time, which can go back and forth rather than in one direction.
Subjective Time Measurement, 2017. Mahogany wood, copper, glass, seal wax, beeswax. 90 × 20 × 18 cm.
Mika Yamakoshi
Jewellery artist & hairdresser
WORKS:
Three Kinds of It, 2025
Never Want to Do This Again, 2025
Painting, 2025
The Exchange Example, 2024
Pieces, 2023
Object Lesson, 2022
Please Do Not Touch, 2017
A Consideration of the Rule, 2017
Stories of Absence, 2017
Pen/dant, 2017
Subjective Time Measurement, 2017
Take It With You —Slight Mercy—, 2015
EXHIBITIONS:
Artists' Fair Kyoto, Kyoto, JP, 2025
Pieces, SOOT, Tokyo, JP, 2023
Object Lesson, necoma, Tokyo, JP, 2022
Object Lesson, C7C gallery, Nagoya, JP, 2021
Artists' Fair Kyoto, Kyoto, JP, 2021
Object Lesson, Kamome Books, Tokyo, JP, 2020
Re-importation, Tokyo, JP, 2017
RESIDENCY:
TRACTOR, D’CLINIC Studios, HU, 2018
PUBLICATION:
Press, 2019
EDUCATION:
Jewellery Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL, 2017
Foundation Course, Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2014
Nippon Beauty Academy, Tokyo, JP, 2006
BORN:
Tokyo, JP
CONTACT:
contact@mikyam.com
@_mikyam_