Title: 30°43'17"N 128°04'00"E
Size: 140×480×87 mm
Material: Newspaper (1945, Asahi Shimbun reduced edition, Japan), paper
Year: 2022
The material used is a reduced version of the Asahi Shimbun dated April 7, 1945, when the battleship Yamato of the former Japanese Navy sank off the coast of Cape Bomisaki in Kagoshima Prefecture, as well as before and after.
The motif is based on the anime space battleship that departed from the same location 254 years later.
The anime motif itself is important in Japanese cultural history, and at the same time, the meaning and thoughts of this motif were created during the era in which the work was created, with the post-war era still remaining.
And the motif is the deified weapon called the battleship Yamato.
This is a fact that cannot be discussed in isolation to talk about a single era, and this work is the embodiment of this fact.
The title of the work is the coordinates of the current resting place of the battleship Yamato.
The motif is based on the anime space battleship that departed from the same location 254 years later.
The anime motif itself is important in Japanese cultural history, and at the same time, the meaning and thoughts of this motif were created during the era in which the work was created, with the post-war era still remaining.
And the motif is the deified weapon called the battleship Yamato.
This is a fact that cannot be discussed in isolation to talk about a single era, and this work is the embodiment of this fact.
The title of the work is the coordinates of the current resting place of the battleship Yamato.
タイトル：30°43'17"N 128°04'00"E
サイズ： 140×480×87 mm
素材：新聞(1945年・朝日新聞縮刷版・日本)・紙
制作年：2022
素材は旧日本海軍、戦艦大和が鹿児島県の坊岬沖にて沈没した1945年4月7日の朝日新聞縮刷版と、その前後を使用。
モチーフは、その254年後に同じ場所より旅立ったアニメの宇宙戦艦をモチーフに制作。
モチーフのアニメ自体も日本の文化史の中で重要であると同時に、作品がが作られた時代、戦後がまだ残る中作られたこのモチーフに対する意味、想い。
そしてモチーフでもある戦艦大和という神格化されてしまった兵器。
一つの時代を語るために切り離して語ることはできない事実であり、それを一つの形にしたのがこの作品である。
作品タイトルは、現在戦艦大和が眠る場所の座標である。
