©Liku M. Takahashi
エーテル
The Ether
1993 / ワイン瓶、コルク、鉄 / 1×1×2(m)
1993 / winebottle, corks, iron / 1×2×2(m)
［醸造用ラック］に模した赤い棚には、［エーテル(魂)］入りのワインボトルが入っています。
ボトルの透明ラベルに、各人の西暦の生まれ年、笑顔の写真、made by cosmo(宇宙製)を２本ずつセットでプリント。ラックの表と裏面で一対にそれぞれ100 人分のボトルが並んでいます。
人は表面にある現在の世界だけでなく、裏に別のパラレルワールドにも同時に存在しているのではないでしょうか。寝ているときも、自分の存在はどこか別の世界へとまぎれこんでいるかも知れません。
身体を所持する我々は、何故この世界に生きて存在しているのか。それは、魂の器であるボディを得たときにのみ数十年、あるいは数百年ずっと長いあいだ待ち望んできた［学びの時］を得るのだと私は思います。
このときに限り魂は成長し、学びを刻みつけることができる。まるで醸造用のワインラック
でワインを寝かし、クオリティーを高めるかのように。
On a huge red wine rack, there are bottles filled with "ether."
There are 100 bottles on one side, and the same for the other.
Each bottle on one side corresponds to the one on the other side.
A pair of bottles has the same transparent sticker on which printed an individual's birth year,
his/her smiling picture, and a line that reads "made by cosmo."
Every human being has his/her parallel world at the same time as he/she lives in the current world.
In our thinking, anything could go anywhere, and we can also beam our thoughts to the universe and even to another dimensional world.
When we are asleep, we might travel through a warp hole to another world.
Why do we exist in this world carrying a pair of body suits called "human being"?
That is to learn, and to engrave what we have learned in our souls, for not to forget.
That is, we need to ferment our souls like we do for wine.
Our souls can travel beyond time and space.
Having waited for ages, they gain the time for learning when they receive their own houses called "human being."
That is the only time when a soul can grow and absorb learning.
That is, the soul is laid on a wine rack and brought to higher quality like a bottle of wine.
