I drew them just floating there, observing us just living in our world.

The background story for them is that they are born from the strangely shaped rocks that are found on Montserrat, which is revered in the Catalonia region, and that they are always watching the residents of the area.

So while they may look like rocks, they really aren’t hard. They have a rather more ambiguous consistency, between solid and liquid, between liquid and gas. I call them “gaudinoue”, and they are just a silly setting that only I know about.

In anchient Japan, they held the belief that there were an uncountable number of gods. They believed that everything had a god in them. Even if they don’t do so consciously, many Japanese still hold this belief.

Gaudi was Catholic, but I wonder if he would have have rejected it, if he had come across the belief of a vast number of gods.

There’s a louse hidden by the knocker at Casa Calvet, and you pound on the louse to create the pealing knocks. Not many people like lice, so it the pounding of it is probably why it exists. Or rather, Gaudi gave the louse a purpose. I wonder if he meant for it express that there is no life that is insignifcant. I don’t know.

I may be presumptious, but I think that Gaudi would have been rather sympathetic to the idea that we are liviing in a world where everything has a god in it.

Takehiko Inoue

・ The Gaudi Exhibit at the Mori Arts Center runs until 9/7.
・ After that, it will travel to 4 other locations around the country.