- Bogotá ボゴタ -
I instantly fell in love with this city. As I got off the long-distance bus, I knew intuitively that I loved the colors and the temperature of this city. The first conversation I had asking for directions surprised me by making me fall in love with the locals as well.
この街に、一瞬で惚れた。長距離バスを降りて、直感的に、この街の色も温度も好きだとわかった。最初に道を尋ねた会話で、人も好きになってびっくりした。
A construction worker shouted in Japanese from a little distance away to me who was comfortably intoxicated by the irregular rhythm of this city while looking at a homeless man who kept talking something one way to a policeman talking to a woman while smoking a little marijuana sold in a heap on the street beside the driver who was reluctantly giving money to a street child who wiped the window of his car at a stoplight. OHAYO!
信号待ちの車の窓を勝手に拭くストリートチルドレンにしぶしぶ御駄賃を渡す運転手の脇の路上で山盛りで売られてる大麻を少し拝借して一服しつつナンパ中の警官に一方的に何かを喋り続けているホームレスを眺めながらこの街の不規則なリズムに心地よく酔っている僕に向かって少し離れたところから工事現場のおっちゃんが日本語で叫んだ。オハヨー！
In this city, there were bars on the windows and many soldiers and policemen walking around watching over the city. It was not too safe, that's what attracted me.
この街の窓には鉄格子があり、多くの軍人や警官が街を見守って歩いている。安全すぎない。それに惹かれていた。
Molotov cocktails and armored cars, onlookers watching like a show. The boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary is not clear to me as a passerby.
火炎瓶と装甲車、ショウのように見守る野次馬。通りすがりにはわからない、日常と非日常の境。
At a weekend flea market, I sold my Walkman and bought a small boombox. Listening to music through earphones had become too constricting.
週末のフリーマーケット。ウォークマンを売って、小さなラジカセを買う。イヤホンで音楽を聴くことが、窮屈になっていた。
For some reason, I remember mostly sunset colors.
なぜか夕方色ばかり思い出す。
- to Ipiales イピアレス へ -
The windows were filled with the Andes Mountains when a small monitor inside the bus was showing "Titanic".
車窓にはアンデス山脈。バスの中のテレビには映画タイタニック。
I thought it would be nice to just lay down and melt away in this place where there is nothing but earth.
地球以外に何も無いこの場所に、ただ寝ころがって溶けてしまうのもいいと思った。
- The Border of Colombia & Ecuador 国境 -
