海外で Contemporary Artistとして活動している Kaori Mori の日本語サイトです。
Maze #03 2006
作品説明 (英語版)
The beginning...
Catalogue of the exhibition 2006 "Maze... and beyond"The beginning of the Maze series...The work that I make deals with experiencing feelings and emotions, and reflecting on them in plastic form.I use colour, texture, free movement, as means to express an inner state.Poetry is important to me- it often feeds me process.When I read a poem, images begin to emerge in my mind: dreams - possibilities - remembered sights, sounds, fragrances.I think that memory plays an important role when it comes to imagination.My paintings started from a meditation on life and death, light and darkness.I cannot see my beginnings, I cannot see my end, but I can feel them and what I am feeling is "a vague life", "a vague death".There are no words left. No sounds.But there is something that you could "see".Something you could "hear".Something you could "feel".Second stage...
After the Maze series,I moved onto the other seires: Maze... and beyond.My work consists primarily in painting, but I mostly exhibit my work as an installation.I usually describe my paintings as mixed media.The expression of my thoughts becomes material through my painting.Because when I work my feelings and senses are connected, similar to meditation.Thin coats of colours are layered over and over again on the surface by using oil, acrylic, medium, ink, paint, paper, fiber, corn silk and rice.When the paintings are completed, their surface is highly influenced by light; they show changes in colour depending upon the angle of viewing.Layering alludes to information collected through the senses; it reflects my ideas about memory and its emotional expression, about the spirituality, which infuses my environment, and also about the ambiguity of process.In the world today...
In the world today,the arts of the intellect are held in high regard;there is less space for an art of sensitivity.Information can be received consciously, as well as unconsciously, yet there are less and less opportunities for experiencing pure sense impressions, in an environment that has little or nothing to do with conscious control.My paintings are about offering an experience of pure sense impressions.The viewer can relate to the work though accessing individual senses, and maybe focusing calmly on this experience.The work that I make completes itself when completed by the person standing in front of it.Beyond the maze lies and open invitation.
Ka heru[還る] Return[返る] Awake[代える] Change[変える] Turn[替える] Alter[換える] Vary[帰る] Be back[帰る] Come back[帰る] Go back[帰る] Get back[帰る] Leave[交える] Meet and cross [交える] Blend[孵る] HatchKaeru (Kaheru) does not have a precise equivalent in English, but means "to return (home or to where the subject belongs) ".Roy Andrew Miller described Japanese language in his book 'Japan's Modern Myth' in 1982,"...the Japanese language possesses a kind of spirit or soul that sets it apart from all other languages, which do not possess such a spiritual entity; or that the Japanese language is somehow purer, and has been less involved in the course of its history with that normal process of language change and language mixture that has been the common fate of all other known human languages"Kaori Mori - Ka heruWhen: 30 May 07 - 12 Jun 07, 10am-5pm. Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun.Location: Front GalleryKaeru (Kaheru) does not have a precise equivalent in English, but means "to return (home or to where the subject belongs)."Kaori Mori's work is highly textual, exploring different media's, dimensions and languages in a way which is a complex and engaging.
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