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phase03

2006-06-24T07:48:00.001-07:00

He and people were satisfied with the new surroundings.
The Town became more comfortable for visitors.
He was asked that to draw on the new enormous wall.
He thought it was dreamlike to do such.
Maybe the great elevator would be built here.
That was a fantastic request for him.
In the night he dreamed again.
In the dream there was one dead cat crushed under the wall he painted.
The cat’s scream was absorbed into the enormous wall, and only the sound of elevator echoed in the town.
In the next morning he refused the request.
“My paint will kill the cat!”
He thought there were two ways of human beings and things in this world.
First way was the things thrown away.
Second way was the things picked up.
This shows as if the cats were thrown away and new tall wall painted was picked up
He remembered that he was thrown away by his wife.
He decided to become the human who picked up the things thrown away and to build a castle to contain all things thrown away.
He picked up clothes, decorations, sounds, cats and so on.
As time went by, the vacant flat that he moved into, was full of things.
People, cats, and all other gathered things became this castle.
This castle gave them confidence and identity.
And this castle became more and more brightly.
Looking at the gathered things he thought: “Indeed I was thrown away but this is more me”.

phase02

2006-06-24T07:48:00.000-07:00

For Recording today’s Simokitazawa, he tried to start taking photographs about Shimokitazawa.

He needs to capture the neighborhood charm as it is, how to best show it.

He thought what kind of photos is suitable for this work?

He loved the fact that Shimokitazawa changes its state everyday; every time.

Replaced shops, displayed clothes on the road, kept back in a hurry when it rains, congestion on Friday or Saturday.

Capturing those everchanging states!

He had taken photographs at the same place everyday, every-visit.

Before people commute, after their work, they enjoy shopping or eating on Saturday or Sunday.

All day, he continued to keep sceneries in his camera.

But, later he noticed a wonder in his camera.

One day he went to a camera shop and had the photos developed but the photos show entirely different sceneries from those he had captured in Shimokitazawa. He couldn’t understand at all. At first he thought he had brought a film belonging to someone else. Looking more closely, he looked into the photos, and he noticed the photos were the sceneries of Shimokitazawa. The scenery in these photos remained the atmosphere in recent Shimokitazawa slightly.

People in these photos lives more conveniently, the buildings was bigger scale, shops were more machinery, and there were few walking people. He felt these seemed the scenery of Shimokitazawa in future but as the same time he didn’t feel it’s not like Shimokitazawa. This future lost the goodness of Shimokitazawa.

He decided to change the future and to strayed into the chaos world. He thought he should inform many kinds of people in Shimokitazawa about goodness of Shimokitazawa and the death of Shimokitazawa. He should make the people have goodness of Shimokitazawa jointly.

He started taking photos again.

After several months, he went to the site usually, he was spoken to by visitors.

“You take photos everyday, don’t you?”

“Why Do you take?”

“Please take my picture here!”

He had become famous person at shimokitazawa.

His will was shared with people who sympathize with.

Some of them gave him their belongings to entrust him their wish.

Time gone.

There were full of his collection that was given to him by people which he sympathize with him in his room and he was looking for the place to exhibit them.

When he wanted a owner have his shop in simokitazawa, offered displaying space to him.

He renewed the space daily.

He, or customers, compared today to 3years ago, today to 5years ago.

Though some shops had changed, chaotic landscape had not.

How the scape 3 years later is like?

For preserving this charm, He continued to exhibit photos and items.

He went to the camera shop and had his photos developed.

He turned over the developed photos, but he only watched the tall building and the uniform shops.

It didn’t look like Simokitazawa he hopes.

He got disappointed. “How can I change the future?”

But he looked into the last photo, he got confidence that the state in future was changing slightly but certainly. Between the tall and uniformly buildings there was a very very small and heartwarming shops where many people gathereed .

He got confidence.

Future is changing step by step but certainly.

He strayed into the chaos world again.

phase01

2006-06-24T07:47:00.000-07:00

The heroin of the story is one cat. She lives in Shimokitazawa for a long time and loves it there. But she is sensitive to the surroundings. She feels the changing of Shimokitazawa.
One day, she went to the favorite shop and slept all day in front of the shop as usual. It’s her daily work. The shop teaches her that as time goes by, the building is getting old but inside of the building is getting brightly like her life. The shop not only tells her the philosophy of her life but also it makes her more fulfilled. But, as soon as she fell asleep as usual, she dreamt that this shop is being destroyed. She jumped with the scare. She runs down the street that she takes everyday to go to the shop. She named the street “ the depth street”. The street was not different from an usual day.
She got to the main street of Shimokitazawa. And she remembered that Shimokitazawa was a monotone town long time ago, but as time goes by Shimokitazawa becomes more colorful. And she feels many kinds of color more vividly after going to the shop. She remembered that dream again. She got afraid of losing these color.
Her heart began to flutter violently. She feels as if the part of Shimokitazawa she loves are getting broken down from older buildings.