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title: Can Peace
tags: [multiple art, sculpture]

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Can Peace
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###### tags: `multiple art` `sculpture`
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![Peace](http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1CPKa0SVzgTOJlilaglK3X3rv1QpvX1a8)
Multiple art, 2001, owened by the artist.  

#### Data
    materials: Manufactuared can, Redesigned label, Tobacco ash  
    size: Φ70 x 80 (mm)  

#### **Overview**

This is a tiny piece, born out of everyday acts, but related itself to our history and today's world affairs in the 21st century.

Made in 2001 from a cigarettes can filled with ashes collected after artist's smoking instead and covered with a partly redesigned label, and dedicated to the world after [＊September 11](#Further-reading).

<img src="http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1wcUxWA1WyI5WDWImmQwAHBzGTpI3z2bZ&usp=sharing" width="32%" style="float:left; margin-left:16px;margin-right:32px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px">

Featuring a [＊dove of peace](#Further-reading), its cover was originally designed by [Raymond Loewy](https://www.raymondloewy.com) for the first post-WWII cigarette [＊Peace](#Further-reading) in Japan by referrence to the biblical story ([＊Genesis](#Further-reading) 8:11), that tells a dove returned with an olive branch in its beak to the ark. Based on this well-known anecdote, the dove became a symbol of peace and thus was used as its logo design. Afterward canned products have been familiar to the Japanese as "Can peace" for a long time. Merely, its leaves part was replaced with flame designed with a half side of Yin & Yang symbol, and the background color turned to ominous red reminiscent of our blood, by the artist.  

Imagin what happens in the world after the alight ark...
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<details><summary><b>Overview (ja)</b></summary><div>
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この作品は日常的な行為から生まれた小さなものではあるが、私たちの歴史と21世紀の今日の世界情勢に関係している。
    
2001年、アーティストの喫煙後に集められた灰を詰めたタバコの缶に、一部デザインを変更したラベルを貼って制作され、「9.11」後の世界に捧げられた。

平和の鳩をモチーフにしたこのカバーは、もともとレイモンド・ローウィが戦後初の日本製タバコ「ピース」のためにデザインしたもので、オリーブの枝をくちばしにくわえた鳩が箱舟に戻ってきたという聖書の物語（創世記8章11節）にちなんでいる。このよく知られた逸話から、鳩は平和の象徴とされ、そのロゴデザインに採用された。その後、缶入り製品は「缶ピース」として長く日本人に親しまれている。ただ、その葉の部分が陰陽の半面をデザインに用いた炎に変わり、背景色が私たちの血を思わせる不吉な暗赤色になっただけである。

想像してみてほしい──箱舟に火が移った後、一体どうなるのか。
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#### Further reading

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        <p>Wikipedia Links:</p>
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            <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks" target="_blank">September 11 attacks</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves_as_symbols#Christianity" target="_blank">Doves as symbols</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_(cigarette)" target="_blank">Peace (Cigarette)</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" target="_blank">Genesis</a></li>
        </ul>
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        <img src="http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=19pV_A7rSZVARkIfALgjrcVbrT5gRM25d" alt="Image 1" style="width: 45%; height: auto;">
        <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Tampereen_hiippakunnan_vaakuna.svg/340px-Tampereen_hiippakunnan_vaakuna.svg.png" alt="Image 2" style="width: 45%; height: auto;">
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* [September 11 attacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks) - Wikipedia
* [Doves as symbols](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves_as_symbols#Christianity) - Wikipedia
* [Peace (Cigarette)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_(cigarette)) - Wikipedia
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