中村綾花 Ayaka Nakamura | 轉身之藝 The Art of Transformation

中村綾花

Ayaka NAKAMURA

協力創作：杉原信幸

在南投埔里有一間公司專門生產帽子用的紙纖材料，中村綾花以此媒材創作本次駐村展覽作品。她覺得她創作出的有機形狀好似水滴，對她而言，水就是連結萬物的象徵。

近三年她造訪了許多臺灣原住民的傳統儀式與博物館展示。她看到賽夏族特別的「舞帽」（賽夏語kilakil），由竹枝構成，可高達兩米高。在矮靈祭時戴在頭上，連結著天與人，族人也相信會有矮靈停留其上。她想，信仰與文化的連結對於那個地方來說顯然是特別強烈。是靈性之物的通道，也是靈的搖籃。彷彿是一座試著抵達太陽的橋樑、原初的生命。

於是她用南投的紙，去打造出一座帽子橋，連結著神靈與人們。

中村在她的旅程中過生活。她與景色、文化、食物、土地上的人、當地的材料相遇，並從這些經驗中產出形狀。

Collaborator: Nobuyuki SUGIHARA

There is a company in Nantou Puli that makes materials for paper hats. So Ayaka Nakamura decided to use it as the main material of this exhibition. She thinks the organic form that she makes has the image of a water drop. For her, water is the image of connecting all.

For three years she has visited traditional festivals and museums of indigenous Taiwan. She met the Saisiyat tribe's special hat. Dancing hats ("kilakil") are hats that combine with branches and are 2 meters high. The hat is the place where Dwarf spirits rest. The hat is placed on the head, that connects the heavens and the people. She thinks that the connection with the religion and the culture unique to the local area appears strongly. They are passages of spiritual things and cradles of spirit. It is like a bridge trying to reach the sun, the primordial of life.

She used Nantou's paper to represent a bridge hat that connects the spirit and humans.

Nakamura lives a living life on the journey. She meets with the scenery, culture, food, and people of the land, and local material, then makes forms from that experience.