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I chose a material, refering to an old saying; 'A drowning man will grasp at a straw'.
I bought a life preserver at a shop.
I dissolved and scraped out the flotation agent (polyethylene) in it with a solvent (paint thinner).
After that I packed straw in it, and glued the outside of the canvas colored red.Finally I could hide the contained straw.\\

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I constructed the literal translation into material of the old saying, “A drowning man will grasp at a straw.” Using paint thinner as a solvent, I dissolved and scraped out the flotation agent (polyethylene) in a life preserver. I then packed it with straw and painted the exterior canvas red. I placed the life preserver with the concealed straw on the gallery floor as a symbol of ‘the power to save.’ The process of transliteration through substitution is the artwork.

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I put the life preserver on the floor in a gallery as a symbol of 'the power to save'.
This process, this substitution, became 'art'.

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April 15, 2010, at 12:01 AM by Toyoshima Yasuko -

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LIFE PRESERVER_Strew Life Buoy（1996）

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小型船舶用救命浮き輪　Strew Life Buoy (1996-)\\

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救命浮き環を買う。
浮き環に切れ込みをいれる。
内部の浮力の素材になっているウレタンをシンナーで溶かしすべて掻き出す。
代わりに内部に藁を詰めて切開部を接合して元の姿に復元する。\\

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