青柳菜摘《とうめいなカギ》
Natsumi Aoyagi “The Transparent Key”
(2025) Poem, Book, Image

noir kei ninomiya SS2026のショーで、長谷川白紙さんに声を操作されながら、書き下ろした詩「とうめいなカギ」をランウェイの端で読みました。 とうめいなカギ／海サンゴ／サンゴにくっついて星の砂になる有孔虫の名前が、まだ名前になる前かもしれないくらいゆっくり読むところから始まり終わっていく、 幻みたいな一瞬でした。後日、同題の本を作成。

At the noir kei ninomiya SS2026 show, with her voice manipulated by Hakushi Hasegawa, Natsumi Aoyagi read her newly written poem “Tōmei na Kagi (The Transparent Key)” from the edge of the runway. The poem begins and ends with an almost impossibly slow reading — moving through transparent key / ocean coral / the name of the foraminifera that clings to coral and becomes star sand — so slowly that the words feel as though they have not yet become names. It was a fleeting moment, like a vision. A book of the same title was later produced.