model: 苺谷ことり（エレクトリックリボン）
photo: トーニャハーディング
© tracktop girl
Kotori Ichigotani — The Anonymous Wagara tracktop girl’s primordial icon, Kotori Ichigotani, is a true “jersey soul.” But within her archives, there are artifacts that have faded even from the creator’s memory—dead matters. This yellow-based track jacket, with its complex, overlapping wagara (Japanese pattern), is one such artifact. To be honest, I do not remember the manufacturer. No memo remains, and the garment itself has already been disposed of. It is an anonymous piece, having completely shed the sign of a brand, a specter that holds only the totalizing presence of its pattern. This session, like the Hummel set, was a primitive record captured on a rudimentary Micro Four Thirds sensor. My technique was unrefined, yet that raw “impulse” was exactly what was needed to capture the unmediated violence of this unidentifiable fabric. In this silence, where brand authority is obsolete, her presence becomes the only testimony of existence. This is not nostalgia. It is an Alchemy of Spirit and Matter etched into the void.