Parts of the Universe.
A world in one person's mind is more broad than one imagines.
It might be commonly said, that as if the world in a person is a kind of universe.
From the birth to the present. From unforgettable, deep emotion to insignificant trauma.
All pieces like these emotions and feelings consist the one's universe as the parts.
I often realize things like that in a matter of seconds.
You might not get what I mean, but in fact I'm feeling this way.
Perhaps I have more things I can't express than things I grasp.
That's why many significant things couldn't be explained with convenient and simple words.
- 2007/02/27
- Midnight Talking
Born in Communications.
I love a moment when a new idea is born in communications.
A chemical reaction between one mind and the other is a fascinating of communication.
The producer and stuff of DEBLI Project visited me to take my artworks for the show.
We talked a lot, and through the conversation I could grasp things I didn't make it clear enough.
The very topic of the conversation is what we'll have to do in the future.
It's so hard to think by oneself about the future of this world.
But once we think about it with companies, we can feel a positive energy with them.
Now I'm sure DEBLI Project must be a wonderful show.
- 2007/02/26
- DEBLI
At random from my stock.
I decide myself to upload at least an image every time in this blog.
But to tell the truth, I pick the images up at random from my stock because I'm not diligent to take pictures everyday.
The images are uploaded when I have a time.
Therefore the images often have nothing to do with the sentences.
A sign of Yosuke Ueno's fifth solo show.
But to tell the truth, I pick the images up at random from my stock because I'm not diligent to take pictures everyday.
The images are uploaded when I have a time.
Therefore the images often have nothing to do with the sentences.
A sign of Yosuke Ueno's fifth solo show.
- 2007/02/25
- Diary
RED BULL CIRCLE OF BALANCE
Went to see the world competition of BMX.
This time was “BMX Flat Land”, the riders played their performance on a flat stage.
It was a marvelous event we could enjoy performances of 18 players.
The winner was Viki Gomez form Spain.
The picture is Terry Adams from the U.S.
Though he missed the victory, I was so attracted by his riding as to want to play like him.
Such an appeal is important, I thought.
This time was “BMX Flat Land”, the riders played their performance on a flat stage.
It was a marvelous event we could enjoy performances of 18 players.
The winner was Viki Gomez form Spain.
The picture is Terry Adams from the U.S.
Though he missed the victory, I was so attracted by his riding as to want to play like him.
Such an appeal is important, I thought.
- 2007/02/24
- Diary
Wall Clock.
Cultures of a country, customs of a region, and “ordinaries” of a family.
One of those for me is “wall clock.”
Each room would have “wall clocks” in my home where I had grown up.
Even the entrance and bathroom had them.
I've thought that was natural for every home, because I had grown up in such a house.
When I started to live alone, of course I put wall clock.
Maybe it's my habit, I couldn't feel comfortable without wall clocks.
The other day, when I brought food and drink to my sister who stayed in bed, she also had wall clock in her room.
”So do you,” I grinned.
- 2007/02/23
- Diary
Casual Scenes.
Sometimes I release a shutter, being fascinated with shades of casual scenes.
This image is one of these scenes shot at Figueres in Spain when I had traveled alone there.
At that day I had run around strange localities rumbly with my scooter.
Remember that I had left Dali Theatre and Museum quickly because scenes of the town had attracted me more than the museum.
The house was beautiful, but I haven't known what the house is yet.
- 2007/02/22
- Midnight Talking
The Uniform.
I have few styles of costume.
Usually I choose a pattern and pass one season with the decided pattern.
For example, I even call my rider's jacket that I always put on “the uniform.”
In terms of hairstyle, I've never set my hair through my life.
Appearance is important.
But I want to cut the time for it as short as possible.
So an idea as "the uniform" was resulted.
A neighborhood scene in my San Francisco days.
Usually I choose a pattern and pass one season with the decided pattern.
For example, I even call my rider's jacket that I always put on “the uniform.”
In terms of hairstyle, I've never set my hair through my life.
Appearance is important.
But I want to cut the time for it as short as possible.
So an idea as "the uniform" was resulted.
A neighborhood scene in my San Francisco days.
- 2007/02/21
- Diary
In-line skates.
I decided to do exercises in addition to bicycle, because I found myself a little lack of exercises.
So I started again in-line skates.
Scooter, MTB, and in-line skates.
Somehow I like things with wheels.
At last, I started to create works for solo show this May with my agile body.
I've been using these shoes since 1999.
So I started again in-line skates.
Scooter, MTB, and in-line skates.
Somehow I like things with wheels.
At last, I started to create works for solo show this May with my agile body.
I've been using these shoes since 1999.
- 2007/02/20
- Diary
Continue to the Next.
Finished works for DEBLI Project. It's a month before the deadline.
I could be satisfied with them and feel relief.
I learned a lot through this collaboration as a challenge.
And this experience had made my world widen more.
Continue to the next.
That's what I've been doing since my childhood.
- 2007/02/19
- DEBLI
A sponge at a bookstore.
Spent for a while at a bookstore yesterday.
Reaching for the bookshelves, and that reminded me of my schools days.
I would become a sponge who greedily sucks knowledge in the books when I stopped at a bookstore after school.
After examining many books thoroughly, I would buy just a book because I had to pinch pennies.
Once I had been a bookstore for six hours to search books.
My optic nerve had been exquisite as much as possible to learn the pages.
Though I had been poor, I liked a spirit like that.
Sometimes it's funny to be devoted, but sometimes it's cool to be strain.
After all, I found myself had been there for two hours.
Enjoy cherry blossoms a little earlier.
Reaching for the bookshelves, and that reminded me of my schools days.
I would become a sponge who greedily sucks knowledge in the books when I stopped at a bookstore after school.
After examining many books thoroughly, I would buy just a book because I had to pinch pennies.
Once I had been a bookstore for six hours to search books.
My optic nerve had been exquisite as much as possible to learn the pages.
Though I had been poor, I liked a spirit like that.
Sometimes it's funny to be devoted, but sometimes it's cool to be strain.
After all, I found myself had been there for two hours.
Enjoy cherry blossoms a little earlier.
- 2007/02/18
- Midnight Talking
"Rokujou-Hitoma" in the House.
Desires
Come to think of it, I find I haven't bought anything except for necessaries for years.
I can't imagine what I want to buy.
For me a desire for shopping is a measure of concentration.
There are no materialistic desires in my mind when I think of art.
The image is from Yosuke Ueno's 5th solo show.
I can't imagine what I want to buy.
For me a desire for shopping is a measure of concentration.
There are no materialistic desires in my mind when I think of art.
The image is from Yosuke Ueno's 5th solo show.
- 2007/02/16
- Midnight Talking
Relation of Customizing
When I was a child, I named my bicycle.
It was one of the easiest ways of customization for me to name things belonged to me.
“To custom” means, "to have something to do with the object.”
And the relationship brings an attachment or a love.
A Fox in Le Petit Prince refuses to make friends with the Prince.
Because the Fox knows that a farewell must be brought to them.
Today, I sent my artworks to L.A for a show.
An artist and its artworks.
That is very the relation of customizing.
- 2007/02/12
- Midnight Talking
Wonderful Night, pt 2.
To DJ Edword's party also this month.
Met some friends whom I haven't seen for a while, and beautiful music.
I had only 30 minutes there, but it was a wonderful night.
- 2007/02/11
- Diary
Puzzle without solution.
Finished Rhino, a work for DEBLI Project.
I couldn't up the image yet now, but it appeared to be much cooler than I've imagined.
Everything such as title, concept, and subject of the work are the best.
I pretend to accomplish "the ideal collaboration" perfectly.
At this time I beat my brain so much. I always kept the Rhino beside myself.
At bedside when sleep, I thought about it even in my dreams.
That is as if I had tried a puzzle without a solution.
I had an exciting and enjoyable time.
I've started to create "Elephant" today.
The Elephant must be better than the Rhino.
Now the elephant occupies my mind.
I have an exciting and enjoyable time.
- 2007/02/10
- DEBLI
When I want to reflect things.
For me, music prevents me from thinking when I want to reflect things deeply.
But there are a few tunes proper for thinking.
One is "Canon in D Major" and the other is "Untitled 4" by Sigur Ros.
Somehow these tunes invite me to ponder things pleasantly.
But there are a few tunes proper for thinking.
One is "Canon in D Major" and the other is "Untitled 4" by Sigur Ros.
Somehow these tunes invite me to ponder things pleasantly.
- 2007/02/09
- Diary
Good Chemistry.
Sometimes materials "bring out my capabilities."
Materials have each characters and there is even chemistry between things and people.
What it means to be right chemistry?
That is, so to speak, to have a relationship in which a person and a thing could bring out their capabilities from each other.
We've already known important things.
But we've sometimes forgotten them because they're too usual.
Piece of Universal Peace at MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO.
Materials have each characters and there is even chemistry between things and people.
What it means to be right chemistry?
That is, so to speak, to have a relationship in which a person and a thing could bring out their capabilities from each other.
We've already known important things.
But we've sometimes forgotten them because they're too usual.
Piece of Universal Peace at MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO.
- 2007/02/08
- Midnight Talking
Space Travel
I haven't yet, but some of my friends have already traveled space.
In fact in terms of the safety and the money, space travel is more popular than the past.
The rapid spread of space travel is just like that of the Internet.
Everyone had gone to space say “the earth was more beautiful than they've heard.”
Seeing from space where there is no air, they could see everything so solid.
In addition, I sometimes hear that "they were astonished at the speed of the earth's rotation."
And at last, my friends once have traveled space say unanimously “you'll get to know what I say if you'll go to there!”
Space…
A story like this will be heard in the near future.
A thing I imagined yesterday, looking at the beautiful moon.
- 2007/02/06
- Diary
Price for possibilities.
Went to an art material shop.
I really love to look at painting tools and feel so excited, looking them.
Want to try all the tools around the shop, and even want “to live there.”
Of course I couldn't live there, so I simulate using the tools in my mind instead of living there.
The most exciting and delightful time for me.
When I get some of the tools, I'm so gratified that I could work instant at the shop.
It's often said that “Japanese art materials are expensive.”
I know that's true but, I think that I could get more pleasures and possibilities than the prices.
A tool is a device to bring out possibilities.
I believe that it's wrong for creators to be stingy about the tools.
- 2007/02/04
- Midnight Talking
More than looking through my eyes.
I've just finished work for a group show in this March (L.A.) late at last night.
Though I'm going to have photography of these works in this early morning, I'm already feeling that I've done.
So as soon as I finished the work, I started work for DEBLI Project in April (Tokyo.)
In this DEBLI Project, the artists will “recycle” objet d'arts created by Takemi Nishimoto.
I chose the rhino and the elephant.
But I found it difficult to “recycle” these objet d'arts than I imagined.
Mr. Nishimoto showed these pottery animals as works of “paper folding.”
These are already beautiful now. I hesitate to overpaint them.
Because these works are the artworks that had already been accomplished.
I've got some ideas about them, but I couldn't decide.
It's unusual for me, but I haven't made up my mind.
I have gazed “the rhino and the elephant,” while creating another works.
But I've got a vision suddenly when started to make the groundwork.
I was amazed at that.
I can feel strongly the figure, scale and image of the objet d'arts from my brush.
That was as if I would suck up the vision through my brush as a straw.
I could recognize, how I should create these, with all of my body.
I found out that a painter could grasp his work through the brush than by touching or gazing it.
Photo by DEBLI Project
Though I'm going to have photography of these works in this early morning, I'm already feeling that I've done.
So as soon as I finished the work, I started work for DEBLI Project in April (Tokyo.)
In this DEBLI Project, the artists will “recycle” objet d'arts created by Takemi Nishimoto.
I chose the rhino and the elephant.
But I found it difficult to “recycle” these objet d'arts than I imagined.
Mr. Nishimoto showed these pottery animals as works of “paper folding.”
These are already beautiful now. I hesitate to overpaint them.
Because these works are the artworks that had already been accomplished.
I've got some ideas about them, but I couldn't decide.
It's unusual for me, but I haven't made up my mind.
I have gazed “the rhino and the elephant,” while creating another works.
But I've got a vision suddenly when started to make the groundwork.
I was amazed at that.
I can feel strongly the figure, scale and image of the objet d'arts from my brush.
That was as if I would suck up the vision through my brush as a straw.
I could recognize, how I should create these, with all of my body.
I found out that a painter could grasp his work through the brush than by touching or gazing it.
Photo by DEBLI Project
- 2007/02/03
- DEBLI
Slow Life
I've often heard the words "slow life."
The important is not the speed, but the rhythm.
Amulet Seven in Shimono-seki Museum
- 2007/02/02
- Midnight Talking
Hot Winter
Anyway I would never say “it's cold” in this winter.
And at the same time, I've heard about news say that "it's a hot winter this year" for a few years.
Thought that it's so much to say "hot-winter," however there has just been a news that it's not snowing at all in some ski resorts around Japan.
It might be irresponsible.
But I cannot help saying "is the earth all right?” for a few years.
And at the same time, I've heard about news say that "it's a hot winter this year" for a few years.
Thought that it's so much to say "hot-winter," however there has just been a news that it's not snowing at all in some ski resorts around Japan.
It might be irresponsible.
But I cannot help saying "is the earth all right?” for a few years.
- 2007/02/02
- Diary
Own feeling time
Was it only me, who felt this January so long?
Nevertheless every day was full and enjoyable in this month, I felt it very long.
I feel curious about this feeling.
It's not time which clocks show, but time which people have individually on their own.
And I named it "own feeling time.”
This "own feeling time" is actually curious.
Generally speaking, it's said that people feel the time longer than usually when they have something distasteful and hard.
And on the contrary, they could feel the time faster when they enjoy.
But everyone know that it's not necessarily so.
There sometimes is time when we feel our time so longer, enjoying things.
I have many wonders about this "own feeling time."
I've enjoyed thinking about this subject for a long time.
And I haven't got the specific answer yet, so I will enjoy it more from now on.
Nevertheless every day was full and enjoyable in this month, I felt it very long.
I feel curious about this feeling.
It's not time which clocks show, but time which people have individually on their own.
And I named it "own feeling time.”
This "own feeling time" is actually curious.
Generally speaking, it's said that people feel the time longer than usually when they have something distasteful and hard.
And on the contrary, they could feel the time faster when they enjoy.
But everyone know that it's not necessarily so.
There sometimes is time when we feel our time so longer, enjoying things.
I have many wonders about this "own feeling time."
I've enjoyed thinking about this subject for a long time.
And I haven't got the specific answer yet, so I will enjoy it more from now on.
- 2007/02/02
- Midnight Talking
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