Let’s talk about your works.

Let me introduce the work I made for this exhibit.

Above) JAPANESE, Down) PIGHEAD © 2007 Takahi Kawanishi/Phil

Like a reversal printing. (a wood block)
By engraving, ripping, burning, and stitching, I gave it the motif of the national flag crumbling in balance. I will leave understanding it to the audience.

The motif that applied to an absolute image side of me was “Pig”. A work that invents an overwhelming sense of existence by giving time to the motif.

TRASH GOLD © 2007 Takahi Kawanishi/Phil

The further reconfiguration (interpretation) of “MATERIALS” which I offered to this SHIFT cover, I produced it as a display rather than a work of the exhibit.

How do you think the exhibits and the openings are going to be?

To be honest, I have no idea now. It will be influenced by the smell, sound, temperature, something that is realised keenly there, the feeling. I also think there is something I should change, a vague image in my head. But I would keep it there for now because I like to leave it to an audience’s perception rather than what I say it is. However, I definitely want you to feel “distortion”.

Please tell us about SHIFT cover this month.

The title is “MATERIALS”, an item which does not have much meaning by itself, but in a work of collage it brings “something” to a different light by recomposing and rearranging it.

Any particular person, thing, or event that influenced your current work?

Basically there is no definate answer to that question. I am easily influenced deeply by anything, right or wrong. (It’s making me tired, though.) My point is what you perceive from that, I guess.

You may think I am vague and devious, I dare to say “Something common what nobody needs anymore.”

What is coming up next?

I will open another exhibit somewhere in Paris this year and in Tokyo as well.

Lastly, a message to a reader, please.

Let’s get off a stop early for a change, and go home on foot!