The Process of “Superposition” Painting

The Process of "Superposition" Painting Create a painting that serves as a layer of past time. Apply a thin layer of dots or particles over that layer, as if accumulating, and temporarily conclude the painting. Leave the canvas u…

Constructing form through color

The painting on the left was created by overpainting the half-finished oil painting on the right. What does it mean to construct form through color? Typically, when making a painting, one begins with a drawing or outlines to define the con…

To desire to see, and to bring into visibility

A painting is less a matter of "expression" than it is a desire to see. By rendering it into a painting, it becomes something that can be seen. The maker of a painting is, first and foremost, the one who sees it—the very first pe…

Overpainting: Turning the Goddess’s Skin to Mire

The painting on the left was created by overpainting the half-finished oil painting on the right. This work also utilizes a discarded study as its underlying layer—the original image being a copy of one of the Three Graces from Botticelli’…

Can AI view images? What about you?

目をAIに貸すこと、Lending my eyes to AI. AIに絵は見れるのか?どうなんだろうと思ってAIとの対話をやってきた。このやり取りの中でおもしろいと思ったのは、AIは人間のような目を持たず、その代わりにプロンプター(質問者)の目を借りるということだった。もちろんAIも絵を見て分析し、そこに顔を見つけるとか、形が他の何かに似ているといったものを見る目は持つ。しかしそれはあくまでも分析、統計的、座標的な形の見方であって、それは人間が見るもののある一面でしかない…

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<Pomeranian, 1969> oil on canvas, 194x194cm, 2016 …(Omission)… The broad encounter with quantum theory—the idea that humans are also particulate beings—is profound in its own right, though it bears no direct relation to our lives…

「透明な幽霊の複合体」・波と粒子・重ね合わせ about past works < Wave Particle , Quantum Superposition >

2013年制作の「Membrane 9」を描いたときのこと   Membrane9 宮沢賢治の「春と修羅」序にある”透明な幽霊の複合体”という一節は何を指すのか? 詩にあるようにそれは”わたくしという現象”に違いないが、目の見えない粒子やエネルギーによって「人間」という形をとって現れるもののようにも感じられる。またわたくしという現象が現れるこの世界、銀河や気象といった風景と自身が触れ合い、重なり合うことで生まれる世界のことでもあろう。どうしてこのようなフレーズが生まれてきた…