General artist statement
Our works are living: they emit the vibration of chi, [気] circulating spiritual energy.
To approach creation, we play in a realm that cannot be understood by the logical mind, seeking to connect with those who don’t have a voice: objects from the surroundings, plants, animals, the sky, the breeze, the deceased, and spirits.
Beginning to make contact, I enter a mind state of mushin [無心], or the empty consciousness within infinity. Time and space diffuse as I move my hands, surrendering all creative impulses to my kan [感] (feeling, passion, intuition, impression,perception, reception, and touch).
Every so often I’m unsure of myself. I don’t see a path before me: perhaps this darkness is the way to embody something unexpected, startling. Certainly there is no certainty!
We make a small world for the big world. Time in the big world moves faster and faster. Everything is pressing, leaving us the impression that we have less and less time to feel and reflect, ultimately endangering our empathy.
But inside the big world, there are uncountable worlds.There is dust in air, floating across beams of light. Thanks to this light, we can observe the flow of time through dust and through its movement.
Whether the work is animated or still, time is an essential component. It can be collected, stretched, sliced, boiled, melted and regenerated. In the small world, we blend past and future to create a waking present.
Come inside. Hear the legend of our small world.
This is a place of infinite nothingness. Here, there’s no light, no shape, no color.
Suddenly, something breaks through: a multidirectional force, emanating from the source of universal desire for life, that which renews and makes new.
Invisible substances interact with the environment, forming visible shapes. Some solidify, others float immaterially. They fluctuate, divide, and reform. The inside comes to the outside. Multiplying and expanding, it brims with an unpredictable fertility which will take it beyond its identifying characteristics.
Swept along, we see new masses of substance and peculiar life forms. We have just begun to contemplate this unpredictable phenomena when we meet and become the phenomenon itself.
All parts of the universe are part of one long thread which interweaves us all. In the web of events and time, we constantly extend, contract, touch, merge with each other in rhizomatic growth. We can perceive this flow even as it extends far past the duration of our life span.
By activating the senses, we tell stories with many protagonists, who often switch roles: now the subject, now the object. They could simply be one cell in one body or might be cluster entities, collectively representing numerous individuals: those who have died and dispersed, or the undefinable potentiality of those who have not yet been born.
Our works are living: they emit the vibration of chi, [気] circulating spiritual energy.
To approach creation, we play in a realm that cannot be understood by the logical mind, seeking to connect with those who don’t have a voice: objects from the surroundings, plants, animals, the sky, the breeze, the deceased, and spirits.
Beginning to make contact, I enter a mind state of mushin [無心], or the empty consciousness within infinity. Time and space diffuse as I move my hands, surrendering all creative impulses to my kan [感] (feeling, passion, intuition, impression,perception, reception, and touch).
Every so often I’m unsure of myself. I don’t see a path before me: perhaps this darkness is the way to embody something unexpected, startling. Certainly there is no certainty!
We make a small world for the big world. Time in the big world moves faster and faster. Everything is pressing, leaving us the impression that we have less and less time to feel and reflect, ultimately endangering our empathy.
But inside the big world, there are uncountable worlds.There is dust in air, floating across beams of light. Thanks to this light, we can observe the flow of time through dust and through its movement.
Whether the work is animated or still, time is an essential component. It can be collected, stretched, sliced, boiled, melted and regenerated. In the small world, we blend past and future to create a waking present.
Come inside. Hear the legend of our small world.
This is a place of infinite nothingness. Here, there’s no light, no shape, no color.
Suddenly, something breaks through: a multidirectional force, emanating from the source of universal desire for life, that which renews and makes new.
Invisible substances interact with the environment, forming visible shapes. Some solidify, others float immaterially. They fluctuate, divide, and reform. The inside comes to the outside. Multiplying and expanding, it brims with an unpredictable fertility which will take it beyond its identifying characteristics.
Swept along, we see new masses of substance and peculiar life forms. We have just begun to contemplate this unpredictable phenomena when we meet and become the phenomenon itself.
All parts of the universe are part of one long thread which interweaves us all. In the web of events and time, we constantly extend, contract, touch, merge with each other in rhizomatic growth. We can perceive this flow even as it extends far past the duration of our life span.
By activating the senses, we tell stories with many protagonists, who often switch roles: now the subject, now the object. They could simply be one cell in one body or might be cluster entities, collectively representing numerous individuals: those who have died and dispersed, or the undefinable potentiality of those who have not yet been born.