渡邉 光子　

まだアートとは何かも知らなかった幼少期、私の家は貧乏だった。おもちゃやゲームを買ってもらえず友達もいなかった私は、代わりにお気に入りの石を庭や近所から収集し、おもちゃと友達に見立てて遊んでいた。
集めてきた石を積み木のように積み上げたり、ぬいぐるみに見立てて、石に役割と名前を与え友達として「おままごと」をして遊んだ。今はその原体験を元に、石を使ったインスタレーション作品を制作している。

積み上げたり装飾を施した石に名前を付けているが、自作の短歌を「人の名前」と拡大解釈し名付けている。その名付けをもって石と短歌が一つの作品（人格）になる。

短歌（名前）に相応しいと感じる石を拾いに行くフィールドワークを含んだ制作は、偶然の積み重ねで成り立っている。

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When I was a child and didn't even know what art was yet, my family was poor. Because they didn't buy me toys or video games and I had no friends, I would instead collect my favorite stones from my yard and neighborhood, pretending they were my toys and friends.

​I would pile up the collected stones like building blocks, pretend they were stuffed animals, and give them names and roles, playing "house" with them as my friends.

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Now, drawing on this formative experience, I create installations using stones. I name the piled or decorated stones, broadly interpreting my tanka poems as "names of people," considering the tanka poems to be synonymous with the names, and assigning the tanka poems to the stones.

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By naming the stones, the stones and the tanka poems become one work (a personality).

My creative process, which includes fieldwork to pick up stones that I feel are suitable for my tanka poems (names), consists of the accumulation of coincidences.

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