Depicting the inanimate inherently involves a paradox. At the heart of my concern is always living human existence. Yet I still cannot but depict inanimate objects. This is a paradox. This is a paradox of modernity that the inanimate reveals more vividly the essence of the animated, the nature of living human existence.
In our pursuit of better and convenient life, modern society has gradually shown its inhuman nature. Technological advancement is now reaching to the point that the artificial intelligence emerges as a substitute for human brain. The mechanical operation has come to displace what was previously human. Here is the origin of ineffable apathy, a sense of impersonality and emptiness. Here is the origin of our vague sense of fear.
In an age of scientific technology, human beings have long continued to confront the Nature. Mankind has attempted to make this impossible mission possible by technological advancement. People have sought for the perfect beauty and the absolute truth, by artificially reproducing the sublime disclosed by the Nature.
J. Gilbert Rolf, an English art critic, pointed out that the overall trend in human creative activities has changed its character throughout modern history, from the painting as a “craft by hand” to what he called “the photographic.” Human creativity has aspired after the “modern sublime,” in which people have pursued artificial and homogeneous texture as represented by plastic and polyester.
My work unveils the strain between the organic and the inorganic. I approach the cold shine of inorganic and inhuman substances by utilizing such analog tools as brush and paint. Perfect form and unclouded shine of technological substances symbolize the modern sublime. Depicting technological __EXPRESSION__s of the modern sublime “by hand” would lead us to the reconsideration of modernity itself.
born in Chiba, Japan 1985, Based in Tokyo JAPAN.
2008 Tsukuba University, Department of Art and Design.
2010 Tokyo Gakugei University, Graduate school of Arts The Fine-arts studies 2011 Studying in the Tokyo university of Arts, Art and education.