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“Parkland Walk” (2011-2016)
"I had a mysterious experience once before, though there is no way to ascertain if it really happened or not.
It was a calm summer night. I was visiting a friend who lives in Highgate, which is located in North London, and we were drinking in the small courtyard. Being in the stillness of night, particularly on residential streets, I suddenly heard the sound of trains rumbling from somewhere far away. It wasn't the hazy sounds of crawling underground, but the sound of trains moving above ground.However, I didn’t care much about it because I was drunk, and time passed by.
After coming back to Japan, I was looking at the pictures I took at Parkland Walk in Highgate a long time ago (it was a summer night, too). The low quality of the images scanned at a chain photo processing shop and my fading memory of that location were strangely matched together. Time flies so fast. I realized that I rarely knew about the place without the information that trains used to run through the path way.
I therefore started searching for information about that pathway on the internet, and lots of articles came out, including personal websites. Reading articles, the memory gradually comes back: the sunshine filtering through on a sunny day, the muddy ground on a rainy day, people taking a walk, dogs, bikes, and birds' humming.
Then I came to a halt at a line stating that there is a myth that trains can still be heard rumbling along the route near the Highgate tunnels even after the tracks have been lifted. The memory I had completely forgotten came back silently.
I heard the sound from somewhere far away once again."
「不思議な体験をした事がある。不思議な体験といっても果たしてそれが本当にあったのかどうか、それを確かめるすべなど何処にもないのだが。
ある夏の日の夜、ノース・ロンドンのハイゲート付近に住む友人を訪ね、そこの小さな中庭でビールを飲んでいた時の事。特に何かに思いをはせる訳でもなくただ住宅街特有の静けさにつつまれていたのだが、突然どこか遠くの方から電車の走るような音が聞こえた。それは地面の下をはうようなこもった音ではなく、地上を走り抜けるあの音であった。しかしその日はずいぶんと酔っていた私はそんな出来事も特に気に留めず、時は過ぎていった。
日本に帰国した後、私はハイゲートの遊歩道、パークランド・ウォークで以前撮影した写真を見返していた(それもまた、ある夏の日の夜の事であった)。チェーンの写真屋で現像、スキャンされた画質の悪い写真と、その場所に関する薄れた記憶は妙にマッチしていた。 時が過ぎるのはとても早い。考えてみれば私はその場所について、昔電車が通っていて今は散歩道になっているという情報以外は大して知らない事に気がついた。
少しばかりそこについて調べると多くの記事が出てくる。ファンも多い散歩道だけあって個人のウェブサイトも多い。記事を読むにつれ記憶が徐々にぼんやりとよみがえっていく——晴れた日の木漏れ日、雨の日のぬかるんだ地面、散歩をする人、犬、自転車、鳥の声。
そしてある一文に目が停まった。どうやらパークランドウォークには、電車が撤去された今でも電車が走る音が聞こえるという噂があるらしい。
突然、しかし特にはっとするわけでもなく、その時まで忘れていた記憶がゆっくりとよみがえる。
またどこか遠くの方であの音が聞こえた気がした」
Title: Parkland Walk
Artist: Yukihito Kono
Self published, September 2013
Pigment inkjet print on Spanish recycle paper
Softcover with a folded map, saddle stitched
210 x 148 x 3 mm
26 pages (14 photographs)
Text in English
Limited edition of 60 copies, hand numbered by the artist
Two different editions of artist books were published in 2013 and 2019