Swaying | YURAGI

YURAGI｜ゆらぎ YURAGI
53 x 33.3 cm , 2025
Wood panel, Acrylic｜Wood panel, Acrylic

Edge-Flow: Rebirth and Transformation

Re-perceiving the gradually melting contours—the boundaries are quietly beginning to loosen.

Self and other, emotion and information, inner and outer—everything intertwines, blurs, and ultimately generates a new, ineffable landscape. Through the "face"—this most familiar yet most mysterious motif—I explore the "edges" of existence in flux. It is a dialogue with another self, which continues to emerge even as its form gradually dissipates.

In recent years, my creations have entered a realm that merges "Edge" (the concrete form of a face) and "Flow" (dynamic and abstract movement). In contemporary society, aesthetic standards and values are diversifying at an accelerating pace. Once clear boundaries—balance and imbalance, consciousness and unconsciousness, human and AI—are now gradually blending, continuously evolving into new forms. Through social media, the individual self gradually dissolves into others. AI is no longer just an illusion in a mirror but a "real existence" that permeates our lives and creativity. Even the lines between human and non-human exist in an ambiguous gray gradient.

Since I can remember, I have been deeply fascinated by the motif of the "face." The face is both a "perceptive entry point" for receiving external information and an "expressive organ" for projecting internal thoughts. In modern times, the face is no longer just an outward appearance but a symbol of complex communication and the last bastion of self-definition. As the boundaries between "self" and "other," "inner" and "outer" gradually dissolve, we still strive to maintain the "contours" that constitute our self.

I believe that contemporary reality exists within these "flowing boundaries" and "fading contours." I attempt to capture the multi-layered perceptions that emerge at the moment forms disintegrate and begin to flow——that is, the constantly changing state of "edges." Through the window of the "face," I will continue to depict the scene of "rebirth" contained within this chaotic era.

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