“The keys accumulate the memories that are with us in our daily life. When you have a key in your hand it also represents the safety of keeping something or it even gives us new opportunities…Keys are everyday objects that protect valuable things and by coming into contact with people’s warmth on a daily basis, they accumulate a web of memories that coexist within us. They are a medium that conveys our true feelings and they are connected to one another just as humans are. They even resemble the figure of a human body.”
—Shiota Chiharu, quoted in Andrea Jahn, “A Conversation with Shiota Chiharu”, in Kataoka Mami, Ed., Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles, Tokyo 2019, p. 235
「鑰匙累積了日常生活中的記憶。當你拿著一條鑰匙,就代表你存放的東西十分安全;鑰匙甚至能給予我們新的機會……鑰匙是保護重要物件的日常用品,每天都會接觸到人的溫度,能結成一張在我們心中共存的記憶之網。鑰匙是傳達我們真實感受的媒介,鑰匙之間也會像人類一樣彼此連結。鑰匙甚至恍似人體的外形。」
—鹽田千春 ,摘自Andrea Jahn〈A Conversation with Shiota Chiharu〉,Kataoka Mami 主編:《Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles 》,東京,2019 年,頁 235