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SATA Nebular series Rosette nebular in NGC2237
                                     photography on resin, mixed media 25x25cm 2017





                                                                     be like of my first meeting with them when they would reach their
                                                                     maturity. And there is a scene where a chicken is flying in front
                                                                     of me. The image of shadow, penetrating my body, expresses the
                                                                     desire to fly together.
                                                                     In <SaTARK> works, 'chicken' is the most important mo-
                                                                     tif.    However,  'chicken'  image  has  a  unique  shape,  not  a
                                                                     common chicken. How did you implement the 'chicken'
                                                                     images?
                                                                     The chicken image that appears in the work is not all necessarily
                                                                     from the chicken. Head and legs are the ones from the chicken.
                                                                     but the  body is that of goose's, and the wing is from the swan's.
                                                                     I fantasized the chickens would be big, fat and beautiful to com-
                                                                     pensate the actual poor image that I have seen them last.  Most
                                                                     of the synthesized photos are taken directly. The picture of the
                                                                     chicken is taken from the one I bought.  And  the images of goose
                                                                     and the swan were taken from the zoo I visited and made them be
                                                                     the sources for the morphing.  Even though the white wings in the
                                                                     image were taken from the swan's because they were beautiful,
                                                                     I used the original image of the chicken for its head.  If not, I was
                  you would deal with response and judgment of experience is the   concerned I could lose the intended identity of my work.  I wanted
                  responsibility of the individual, and I became aware that I am at   to make the chickens naturally reminiscent of my work.  I made
                  the center of many experiences and emotions.  Therefore, I had   an image of super chicken by synthesizing other origins along with
                  focused the point that what you have defined in your confinement   images from the parts of the chicken.  In the earlier days, I was not
                  could disappear in just a few seconds in this work.  aware of the copyright, so I utilized what I found from the internet.
                  How did 'Chicken' appear in the <SaTARK> series?   Now I shoot or make my own. It is seldom but I buy the necessary
                  I worked with a reminiscence of what it would be like if the chicks   images that I can not make or shoot.
                  grew up fully to be chickens and played with  me.  I thought of   How was your, most recent work, <NEUTRON SaTAR >,
                  chickens as a part of a family and I produced what I wanted to do   born?
                  together like I would go out and walk with them or  design various   It is the work depicting the influence done to the artist when he
                  feelings that chicks might have felt.  It was made from the idea of   loses all the data stored in the computer.  Because of my careless-
                  having fun with chickens, so most of the images have playful scenes   ness, I lost so many photos I completed and the non-processed
                  with them.  I have remorse that I could not keep chickens until   ones stored in the computer.  It was difficult to accept the both
                  they grew fully, so I do not have images of any young chickens or   reality from the guilty feeling of my wrong management, and loss
                  chicks in my work. There are a number of scenes that I am looking   of, in a way, accumulated assets accomplished with time and efforts.
                  at chickens flying and just chickens are flying. There are two large   I felt the heat in my head and thought my blood pressure was high
                  works in landscape forms, and the rest are in square frames.  When   enough to be concerned that it might burst at any time.  Then, a
                  you look at number 1 or 2, the chicken is floating with wings flap-  faint image began to be reminiscent of the link to the work. The
                  ping. I am standing in a rice field.  It is the imaging, thinking of the   core, created by the explosion of a supernova, that neutron stars
                  first meeting with the chickens.  I created images what they would   in the center of the picture content, appeared. Because the star is



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