ART LIVES TORIDE Where Art Is Born

The city of Toride became a familiar place as I commuted to the university campus. It is a place where I can be still and alone, comfortably feeling time melt away. It is a place where it becomes possible to dwell on the idea that all people exist, or that they may all be made up.
I have made a series of garments for a friend and a mirror device to feel the friction with others and see how it feels in my own way.

Looking back, the beginning of my production was when I made clothes for my friends and asked them to wear them and I recorded them in order to dispel the loneliness of just telling them in words. I believe that making is an act that allows us to feel accepted (or rejected) by others and the world.
Recently, I have been photographing with film as if I were making a painting, or making a kind of sculpture with candles, feeling the preciousness of something that has the potential to be transformed by a small force, but stays in place.

I have a sense that there is a world and that all things exist, so I value the perspective of how to look at the world as it exists. I also try to live my life by gradually turning into a rhythm and timing that makes sense to me.

I am currently in a chaotic situation amidst the pandemic, but I have recently become interested in taking the time to create sculptures. I would like to create sculptures that are fixed in a way that is different from recording, and I also want to exhibit them to people in a different environment to observe them. While I study sculpture, I came to believe that sculpture is a means of expression that can accept the fluctuations in life. I also believe that even in a world where it is easier to choose which world to engage with, and where there are several world lines that are easily transferable, there are still common things scattered throughout, and the ability to share and experience similar things is what makes artworks so appealing.

For example, it is not easy to be alone, but lonely to be alone. I would like to observe such mood swings. It is very trivial and precious, and I think this act can be forgiven if it is in the production. I would like to continue to do so and aim to become a part of society where art is necessary.

These days I am sometimes touched by the power of people’s desire to repeat the lives they have led .I realized that the power of belief exists. However, the power of the invisible is just as strong, and I feel that news reports will be repeated in order to make the invisible visible.It seems to me that people are being tested in the midst of such invisibility.

( ) a ghost 2019 in Ueno, Geidai

Header image: Distance of emotion (extract) 2018-.