I am participating in the group exhibition “Hróðvitnir.”
This exhibition takes the wolf as its central theme.
These are the thoughts I held while creating my work.
Wolves live in groups called packs — companions, families, communities.
They hunt together, and the food they obtain is shared among the pack.
About a hundred years ago in India, it is said that wolves took in human children who had been abandoned in the forest, raising them as their own.
The children were later found by a Western priest and brought to a church to be raised as humans. Yet they could never fully adapt. At night, they would howl toward the sky, calling for the wolf family from whom they had been taken.
In Japan, wolves are believed to have gone extinct in the late Meiji period.
They once lived in packs, hunting deer and boar together, sharing the lives they took with their family.
I imagine the bottomless loneliness of the very last wolf that survived deep in the forest.
Thinking about the heavy, dark meaning of “extinction of a species,” I painted this work.
And yet, even now, in the remote mountains of Chichibu, some people say they have heard wolves howling, or seen strange mountain dogs.
Perhaps a resilient group has somehow survived.
The underlying strength of life.
🐺 Group Exhibition “Hróðvitnir”
📍 Art Laboratory Yoru (Tokyo)
Open Fri / Sat / Sun only
📌 7-13-1, 2F, Kobunacho, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
🚶 5 min from Ningyocho Station
🚶 10 min from Mitsukoshimae Statio
グループ展『Hróðvitnir(フローズヴィトニル)』に参加します。
狼は、パックと呼ばれる仲間、家族、集団で生活しています。
仲間で狩りをして、得た食物は仲間と分かち合います。
100年前、インドでは森に捨てられた人間の子供を狼は群れに招き入れ、親となり育てたと言われています。
子供は、西洋人の神父に発見されて教会に引き取られ、人間として育て直されましたが、どうしても人間に馴染めず、夜になると引き離された狼の家族を呼ぶように夜空に吠えたそうです。
日本では狼は明治期後半に絶滅したと言われています。
群れをなし、鹿や猪を仲間と狩り、獲物の命を家族で分かち合い生きてきた狼。
深い森の中で生き残った最後の一匹の底なしの孤独を思います。
「種の絶滅」という重く暗い意味を考えながら描きました。
ただ、いまだに秩父の山奥では、狼の遠吠えを聞いた。異様な山犬を目撃したという人もいるようです。案外しぶとく生き残った集団がいるのかもしれません。「命の底力」
※ギャラリーは、会期中の金土日のみの営業です。ご注意ください。
◯企画名『Hróðvitnir(フローズヴィトニル)』
東京メトロ日比谷線・都営浅草線「人形町」駅徒歩5分、東京メトロ銀座線・半蔵門線「三越前」駅徒歩10分
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