ある夏、どこだったかの高原に行くとゲレンデのリフトも止まっていて、立ち入り禁止の柵も自然の中に埋もれて、人で賑わう冬のスキー場とはまるで違う夏の高原の様子です。
蝶やハチがぷ〜んと飛び回り、虫が自分に止まったり腕の上を歩いていて、その場所に人間が建てたものも注意書きも私も、彼らにとっては何の関係もないんだろなぁと思わされました。たまたま居合わせた生き物でしかないんだなと。
地球をりんごの大きさに例えると、地殻というのは表面の皮の厚みよりも薄いと教えてもらったことがあります。そんなうっすい層の上でさまざまな生き物がうじゃうじゃ生きているというのはいったい何事なんでしょうか。いわんや人間同士のいざこざをや、です。
サバンナの八木さんが床に向かって「ブラジル人、聞こえますかー!!?」という芸が大好きなのですが、何でこんなに好きなのだろうと考えると、あの夏のゲレンデの虫たちのように、自分が慣れて見ている景色をビリビリと破って一変してくれる破壊力なのかもしれません。
オノヨーコさんの『グレープフルーツジュース』や具体美術の村上三郎さんの「紙破り」と通じるものがあるような気もします。

One day in summer, I went to highlands somewhere. The ski lift was not operating and the no-entry fences were covered by grass. It looked totally different from a ski slope crowded with people in winter.
Butterflies and bees were buzzing around. A bug landed and walks on my arm. It made me think that the buildings that human had constructed on the land, the cautionary notes, and I were nothing to do with them at all. I was just a being who they happened to encounter.
I was once told that if you compare the earth to an apple, the crust is thinner than the thickness of the apple’s skin. What is going on when various creatures are living in abundance on a such a thin layer? Let alone a quarrel between people.
A Japanese comedian, Savannah Yagi calls out to the floor, “people in Brazil, can you hear me!!?”. I won- der why I like this performance so much. That may be because it tears the scenery apart that I am used to seeing and change it to a completely different one, just as the insects did on the summer.
I feel that it has something in common with Yoko Ono’s “Grapefruit Juice” and Saburo Murakami’s “Passing Through”.