℃ - Alphabet Ⅱ
・・・Pulsating words・・・
2014.7.10 - 7.26
Gallery 360°
Words Generated By Temperature
Thermometers are arranged in the form of an alphabet to make words, and the words start moving by a daily change of temperature in accordance with the moving red line.
…Of course, your body temperature would do. …
FALL IN LOVE falling in love
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I am still in love with Rose.
ROSE rose flower, ascended (past tense of rise)
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The word, Rose, reminds me of Rose Sélavy (Duchamp). He uses a sublingual thermometer for his work (Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy?). I choose this word as an homage to Duchamp.
BLESS YOU God bless you. take care of yourself (a phrase to say to someone when they sneeze.)
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I choose this phrase as I want to say it when Rose sneezes.
FORT DA existence and non-existence, being - not being
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It is a German phrase, which Freud found when he was playing with his grandson. It is a critical one to think of the acquisition process of human symbolic function (learning language).
WELL quite good, well done, fairly, gee, well well, now, ah-ha, a deep dug well, a fountain
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I choose this word as interjection to bridge conversations and to pose a moment, and as a noun to mean a water well and a fountain.
WATER water, under the water, water surface
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This is the word for Helen Keller that a word and an actual thing are identified for the first time. It has been staying in my mind strongly.
YES NO yes, no
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I choose these words as they deny each other.
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I call the red band-like line of thermometers a drawing of temperature. Drawings of temperature go through the 26 alphabets. All of the alphabets of thermometers exhibited at 27 spots from third to fifth floor for Yokohama Bay Quarter/Gallery BOX (Planning: P3 art and environment) from September to November in 2013 are gathered here.
ⒸSHIGERU MOROIZUMI