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Words and photos by Kensaku Shioya 写真家・塩谷賢作のブログ

2010/09/02

Lodgers without body heat

lodgers without body heat

 

 

 

Close the all windows and doors, shut out cold air and sound of rain. Pale sky shines on the corpses of lodgers by the window, like a new powder layer of their skin. I had many lodgers through the windows and doors in summer – butterfly, bee, mosquito, moth, lady bug, fly, dragonfly and many other winged bugs – and some of them left their bodies here. Touching the corpses with my fingers and I do not feel their body heat. Did they have it when they were alive?

I am not a “settled” person in a certain place so I keep moving to different places like butterflies follow brighter points. The lodgers have gone and I will be gone, too. It is time to think of new life and breaking away from this presence.

すべての窓と扉を閉めて、冷たい空気と雨音を遮断する。血の気の失せた空が、新しい鱗粉の層のように窓辺で間借人達の遺骸に映える。夏の間この窓と扉を通じてたくさんの間借人達がやってきた‐蝶、蜂、蚊、蛾、天道虫、蝿、蜻蛉、たくさんの翅虫達‐幾人かは体を残していった。指で遺骸を触っても体温を感じない。彼らが生きていたときもそうだったのだろうか?

私は一ヶ所に「定住」する人間ではないので、蝶が明るいところを目指して飛ぶように違う場所に移り続ける。間借人達のように、私もいずれ去るだろう。新しい生活とここに存在することからの離脱を考えている。

posted by Kensaku Shioya at 20:46:46 | 日記 |