Artist Statements
Monstrosity, as far as I am concerned, is the property that lies between the human and the non-human. By reflecting the human property onto that of the non-human, perhaps the nature of perception could be changed into where the reality, the world we are aware of, and the dream interact with each other. The monstrous property acts as boundary phenomena not only between the human and the non-human but also between the viewable and non-viewable, between socially acceptable and abject bodies. Objects with such characteristics do not offer a distinctive image or meaning since they consist of essences of the two opposites. By creating such effects, I aim to cause feelings of uncertainty in the viewers. The audience may feel disgust, uncomfortable, or awkward. However, this could attract them drawing them into the world of wonder.
How my monstrous images rise plays the most important role in the process of making. Some reflect my past experience as a child, everyday life, and most importantly the concept of animism, which has become the main drive for my creations. Shinto, the religion originated in Japan, explains the concept of animism as; every matter is animated with spiritual being. This belief is regarded perfectly as natural in Shintoism. In the world of such, the self is treated as one soul, one spirit, and thus, is depersonalized, and the imagination of becoming another being is liberated. From this occurs playing with the concept of unification and the coupling of the dissimilar, and as a result, monsters are created. Through them, an immeasurable number of possibilities rise as to how one object can be exploited for multiple expressions.
As far as I am aware that the concept of unification further goes onto the idea of parallel time perspectives running at different speeds and about the possibility of extra dimensions. The unification of the Outland and the Inland, for example, explains a suggestion of out-of-body experience, which is the soul bridging over the reality (Outland) and the dream (Inland). The state of the body in Outland while experiencing another in Inland is "the waking dream state". This can be thought as the state where one lets oneself to be a kind of dream work. Considering the body as the internal objects and experiences are induced by active imagination, each entry of the "waking dream state" is an experience of an object and is rather like creating a new life, or even being born again.
This is, I believe, how we grow ourselves into something a little bit more than who we were yesterday and to see the inner light of the being. My work is an evidence of this and however it might appear as a personal diary, it is my inner voice towards the outside world, which I, the self in the Outland, can not stop from shouting.