statement

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Tomohito Ishii

An immature mood that serves as a source of inspiration dissolves into trembling images, severed from reality and circumstance.

Colors arrive from everywhere, and in certain moments, they reflect time, place, and energy, attuning the world at its root.

Reproducibility, in the instant of feeling, binds body and color through the fragile connections of the nervous system, generating lived fact. And so, the resolution within an image takes on a dual quality — felt color layered against the crumbling accumulation of images — and as this switch of consciousness is thrown, the image forms in ceaseless transformation.

The idea of the signal arises from an environment in which the image cannot simply be premised on what is visible — or what is displayed. The signal is open to the natural responsiveness of vision, directed toward a certain purity.

The aliveness of living feels suspended in vast space, staring into the void. And so, opening a window, one discovers a new intention of one's own. Simultaneous complexity.

To open one's eyes wide and see the world.

"Holbein Scholarship" statement