With the concept of entertainmentized
“Earth/Earth Theater,” dramas occur among humans/organisms or living things
themselves are replaced with theatrical interpretation and applied to a
painting.
The method adopted as a substitute for
theatrical visual arts is the collage-like appearance (pasting and layering of
meaning/meaningless) on circus. Every shape of a chopped living creature is
reconstructed to be represented as an idol, and arranged as an object alone or
in a narrow space like a stage. The chopping action in these works is a type of
autopsy. By removing a meaning from individual parts, observing the possibility
of a shape, and reconstructing only shape and color things as a part of stylistic
beauty that was built into classical arts, crafts, and religious arts, it
glorifies the shape itself, released from the meaning or the role. This
anatomical collage is an act of quoting the mechanism of circus developed
through festiveness which affirms the existence of all on the stage by combing
various races and cultures freely, and affirms the interplay of play and life
which is contained in this world.
I processed the mesh-like pattern often
found in the background of works onto mass-produced processed leathers, animal
skins, or agricultural nets; after being scanned into a PC, the pattern is
repeated with image processing software, changing the rhythm pattern, and
adjusting colors.
There are two reasons for this.
The first is to clarify the "visual
texture" that perceptual psychologist James Gibson identified. This world
continues a wide variety of "texture" such as land, water, trees,
concrete, and living creatures, and we are in a series of those materials. That
texture, more specifically, the nested and existing texture makes it easy to
visually understand the situation encompassing us like the womb.
The second is to compare the process
that the pattern of the living creature’s skin has produced, copied repeatedly
and moved away from the original, but still similar to the evolution of
organisms or life tradition.
