#in-between

I don't remember all of my sisters yet. I don't think I will remember all of them before the Bloom. I remember three. And a herald. My herald. And companion.

Blossom is like a hummingbird. Always active, always busy. Zipping around, paying attention to all the twenty things breaking. She takes care of some of the more fragile universes, so her occasional overbearing-ness is a necessity. She can come across as a helicopter parent at times, always fussing over her cluster, shooing out our more reckless siblings (looking at you Drama)(and me, I am guilty of this as well), but one look at the fragile state her cluster is in at all times will tell you enough. She's not doing anything wrong. Such is simply the nature of the universes she collects.

Drama feels younger. Not young, none of us are. Ageless beings cannot be young or old. But she occupies less of my memory, while I feel like we hung out semi-frequently. She's energetic, and easily bored. The universes she takes care of must entertain her, and remain entertaining for long whiles, or she might abandon them. As a result, the universes she tends over are chaotic, and prone to harming themselves or each other. Her cluster is in need of constant surveillance, and in the few cases she does leave, one of us has to watch over the cluster. Not an easy task, but one I happily do.

Archivist feels like a steady presence. Not older, but longer, and *always*. He keeps his cluster like a library. Neat, tidy, organized, although we have tried and repeatedly failed to fully decipher his methods. I suppose that's why *he* keeps the library, and not one of us. He keeps calmer universes, those that can mostly tend to themselves, and as a result, tends over *millions* of distinct worlds. Any timeline is infinitely fraying, of course, but holding a thousand strands of time neatly braided together, vs holding a thousand of tHose braids, are two very different things. He collects the most, but is also choosy on what does and doesn't make it into the library. The library is after all for us to find our way around, as the multiverse resets every Rest, and it can take us long whiles to find the world we're looking for if we don't have a starting point. All but pinpricks in endless life of course, but the ease is much appreciated.

Figures in Drift / In-Between

Lars Müller Publishers から刊行された、ヴェネチア・ビエンナーレ国際建築展2025 日本館「In-Between」のコンセプト・ブックに寄稿しました。 私のテキスト「Figures in Drift」では、「形象のドリフト」をキーワードに、藤倉麻子＋大村高広による映像／建築、SUNAKI（木内俊克＋砂山太一）による彫刻／建築を、吉阪隆正＋大竹十一による日本館建築と、その敷地がもつ地形・生態系の文脈のなかで読み解いています。

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