A bus tour to the Shionoe Museum of Art with the Hand Puppet Troupe was held as part of a workshop by the Takamatsu Art Museum.
Blessed with good weather, many people took part, and it turned into a delightful event.
By the end, the participants had grown so attached to the Hand Puppets that they found it hard to say goodbye.
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In April 2025, a reading session was held in front of A Fable Told by the Wind, part of the collection exhibition at the Takamatsu City Museum of Art, featuring finger puppets: the Collared Scops Owl and Fur-chan.
On the left is curator Ishida (the Collared Scops Owl), and on the right is Fukuda (Fur-chan).
A Fable Told by the Wind was first presented in the 2015 solo exhibition Fundamental Violence and is a bear tapestry created in collaboration with local craftswomen from Akita. The story is a metamorphosis tale in which snow melts into water and repeatedly transforms into various living and non-living things.
You can see that the audience members also have finger puppets on their hands.
Some even wear a finger puppet of a snake, knitted from yarn, around their necks.
By wearing the finger puppets on their hands, it seems that a “pathway” to the artwork opens up instantly. Unlike sight, the sensation of skin contact seems to create a kind of friction that resonates with the surroundings.

Around the same time, a puppet troupe from the Takamatsu City Museum took a ferry to visit Ringwanderung on Oshima, part of the Setouchi Triennale. Each person wore a finger puppet on one hand as they hiked up the mountain. They had lunch while gazing out over the Seto Inland Sea at a spot called “Howl from the East,” and later shared stories together in a finger puppet hut nestled in a bamboo grove.

In 2022, at the Takamatsu City Museum of Art, the “The Birth of Seeing” exhibition quietly featured the “Wolf Bench (Gray)” in the M2F exhibition corner.

After the exhibition ended, it continued to be displayed, and in June 2023, I suddenly received a message saying, “It’s happening in Takamatsu!” along with an image of the Wolf Bench still in the process of being painted.

I remember being surprised, thinking, “Is it okay to use a museum like that…?” and now, looking back, I realize that the Medicine Infrastructure had already begun at that time.