Archival Pigment Print
2021
古代の人々はどんなハクジラを捕まえて食べていたんだろう．そしてその一方でハクジラはどんな会話をして人々を見ていたんだろう．収蔵庫で見かけたバンドウイルカの頭骨の非対称性が心地よい．我々の身体骨格は多くの場所で左右対称な構造をしているし，多くの生物はそうだろう．ただしこの骨格の穴の位置を見ていると，そんな常識も意外と捨て去るべきものかもしれないと思えてくる．対称性と非対称性を考えながら，なんだか楽器のようにも，岩石のようにも見え始めている自分がいる．
I'm looking for the skull of a toothed whale while thinking about fish hooks . I wonder what kind of toothed whale the ancient people caught and ate. And on the other hand, what kind of conversations did the toothed whales have with people? I was pleasantly surprised by the asymmetry of the skull of a bottlenose dolphin I saw in the collection room. Our skeletons are symmetrical in many places, and many organisms are. However, when I look at the position of the holes in this skeleton, I realize that such common sense may be something that should be discarded. As I think about symmetry and asymmetry, I find myself beginning to think of it as both a musical instrument and a rock.
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