The titles of the solo exhibitions, held every two years, correspond to the changes in the key phrases of the paintings and the photographs.
On two binary oppositions. One is a personal experience: as someone with a developmental disorder, having long held a yearning for “ordinary people.” The other is a social problem: how humans who rationalize themselves to adapt to society can regain their original humanity. Setting human and machine in binary opposition, the title holds both of these questions.
On continuity and simply being. Human and machine are reconsidered not as a binary opposition but as continuous. If no clear boundary exists between them, the boundary between “ordinary” and “not ordinary” dissolves as well — and with it, the artist’s longing for the “ordinary” is resolved. As a consequence, the titles hold the view that for human happiness, the recognition of “simply being” matters more than the presence or absence of ability. The painting exhibition “Shades of Existence” and the photography exhibition “Melting and Shining” were held at around the same time.
On the resonance of interference and continuity. The moiré and gold in the paintings implement emergent phenomena produced by the interference of different structures. The act of photographing cuts a section from the hierarchical structure of continuous time, and through reconstruction brings beauty to light. The title uses three keywords: interference in painting, continuity in photography, and their resonance.