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SATA Nebular series Rosette nebular in NGC2237
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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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