(ENG)
This is my original artwork.
"Playground Equipment"
Mixed media,10.5x14.8cm,2024
This is a picture I drew while remembering the playground equipment in the park, which looked like a horse shape.
Nowadays, there are sturdy, colorful, and well-designed playground equipment in the parks around my home, but when I think about it now, the playground equipment of my childhood was dangerous. There were swings, slides, and seesaws, but they were monochromatic, the paint was peeling on the swing's seating area, and the large metal fittings at the joints of the seesaw were rusted.
I think that kind of playground equipment still exists today. I think they should be replaced with new playground equipment because they are dangerous, but there are not many children playing in the parks nowadays. That's probably why they don't maintain them much.
(JPN)
これは私が創った作品です。
「遊具」
ミクストメディア、10.5x14.8cm、2024
これは、公園の、馬の形をしたような遊具を思い出しながら描いた絵です。
今でこそ自宅の周りの公園にも丈夫でカラフルでデザインの良い遊具がありますが、私が子どもの頃の遊具は今考えてみると危なかったです。ブランコ、すべり台、シーソーなどの遊具がありましたが、色は単色で、ブランコの座る部分は塗装がはげていて、シーソーのつなぎ目の部分の大きな金具は錆びていました。
今でもそういう遊具は残っているように思います。危ないから新しい遊具にしてほしいと思うのですが、そもそも今は公園で遊ぶ子どもが少ないです。だからあまり整備しないのでしょう。