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The music used for the slides was
Night Note
Interplay
SoundCloud
The realistic dolls have veins drawn on them, even faintly.
I wondered foolishly whether, when the elaborate androids were realised, their skin would also have blue veins floating on it.
As I was photographing the doll, I recalled the September extra issue of an old S-F magazine, which had a cartoon called Sexaroid in the Dinosaur Zone, but I was more reminded of an essay-like passage at the front of the magazine, which read: ‘Blue veins are floating on her skin, yes? And in the afternoon, she has a slight fever! I love it!’
A famous comedian and actor was said to have said that.
I was a high school student at the time. Two years later, this comic actor died of illness at the age of 77.
Despite the almost 60-year age difference, I guess I felt some kind of closeness to his words.
When I read them back, I found that they were presented in the context of who would be the best person to pretend the role of an adult android.
I'm much closer to the age of the comic actor than I was in high school, and I think a lot of things have changed, but not in my head. What I see is changing all the time, but but my silly fantasies remain the same.
リアルな人形には、うっすらと静脈が描かれている。
精巧なアンドロイドが実現した暁には、その肌にも、青い血管が浮かぶのだろうかと愚考した。
撮影しながら思い出したのは古いS-Fマガジンの9月臨時増刊号。Sexaroid in the Dinosaur Zone という漫画が載っているのも思い出したのだが、それよりも巻頭のエッセイ風の読み物にあった”ポーッと青い血管、肌に浮いているよな、昼過ぎになると微熱出るよな娘ーーーよろしおま！たまりまへん！”という言葉。ある有名な漫才師・俳優が、そんなことを言っていたとのこと。
当時、私は高校生。その漫才師は、２年後、７７歳で病没する。
６０歳近い差があるにもかかわらず、彼の言葉に何となく近しいものを感じたのだろう。
読み返してみたら、成人用アンドロイドの役を振り当てるなら、誰が良いかという文脈の中での披露だった。
高校生よりも、その漫才師の年齢の方に遥かに近くなって、いろんなことが変わったと思っているのだが、頭の中は然して変わっていない。見ているものはどんどん変わっていくのだが、バカげた妄想は変わらないということなのか。
