Poi

Bibliographic Details

Title
goldfish scooping / ポイ
Artist
Anonymous / 作者不明
Year
Showa period / 昭和頃
Size
9
Weight
6g
Materials
wire, Paper

既に破れています

Goldfish scooping at a festival.
Paper still maintaining a weak tension.
Made of wire.

It's common that I buy a lot of the same thing and get excited about it, but later I realize that I bought it and it's not what I wanted.The amount ofI sometimes get hesitant or get tired of selling them halfway through. This time, I also experienced the same problem when I had about half of the poi left.

While looking at the poi, thinking "I want to do something with it," I suddenly thought about tearing it apart... Since it would be no fun to make a hole in it with my finger, I filled a watering can with water and let it drip.WaterI decided to use the momentum to make the water break. The water gradually soaked into the whole paper, and just as it became translucent, it broke. It turned out better than I expected. I feel a little sorry for the poi, but the humor was born from the tense atmosphere. It's fine if they're unscathed, but I sympathize with each of the ways they break and each of the losers. Even though I was the one who made them losers.

Text by Shigenori Tsuzuki


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