◎Conceptual Art

Shot by a Sight
Events Presented Themselves to Me in Their Logical Sequence
To the Best of One's Memory for Image Mirror
Perceiving by Sight
Thin-Skinned
One's Point of View
Hidden Accumulated Vision
View Points of Intersection
Existence Appearance
Magnetic Vision
The Space of Magnetic Vision
視弾(眼) / Piercing One's Eyes
Universe
Fragment
Mirage on Mirage

視弾(眼)/ Piercing One's Eyes

　 2002


人間の視線が、対象になっているものにいつも届いていると考えていいのか？ 多くの人から、対象を見ていたら、視線が対象に届いているにきまっているではないかと反論が返ってくるかもしれない。
ところが、他者から見れば、明らかに対象を見ているとしか思えない場合でも、視線が全く届いていない状態もあることを知った。物理的に計測して語れることではないとしても、わたしが演出家の竹内敏晴氏(1925-2009)から聞いた内容が、大いに役立った。話をしていた人が、話を聞いていた人に対して、今迄話したことを一部でもいいので話してもらえませんかとお願いすると、そう言われた人は真っ青になったと言う。話を聞いているかの様に取り繕い、一人、他の考え事をしていたからその様な事態になったことに因る。視線にしても、これと同じ状況があると考えられると思っただけでなく、この状況とは反対に、対象を射抜くぐらい視線の強さを持つこともあると確信したのだった。

Is it correct to assume that the human gaze always reaches the thing chosen as the object? Many people may argue that, if you are looking at an object, your gaze must have reached it.
However, I have learned that there are some situations where the gaze does not reach an object at all, even when it seems obvious to others that the person is looking at it. Although it is not something that can be physically measured and talked about, what I heard from Toshiharu Takeuchi (1925–2009), a stage director, was very useful. When the person who was speaking asked the person who had been listening to him if he could tell him just a part of what he had just said, the person who was told to do so turned pale. It was because that person had been thinking about other things and pretending to be listening to his interlocutor. Not only did I think that the same situation could be held to exist as regards the gaze, but I was also convinced that, in contrast to this situation, the gaze could be strong enough to pierce an object.