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| By YABUUCHI Satoshi | |||||||||||||||
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| @My work as a sculptor reflects a desire to give shape to everything I can see, feel and think - to try and express the spiritual world through a simple view of nature. I do not believe in the supremacy of mankind, we are simply a single aspect of a comprehensive whole that includes not only animals, plants and all organic life forms, but also inorganic objects such as rocks or metal that are not believed to harbor life, natural phenomena such as mountains, rivers, oceans the sky, clouds rain etc., even the sun the moon the stars and everything else that forms a part of the universe. With regard to life, I do not accept that we just suddenly emerge into this world from out of nowhere. A large proportion of our physical and mental attributes come from our parents who had in turn inherited them from their parents, each generation forming a single link in a chain that stretches back to the beginning of creation. The countless beings who were my ancestors down the ages may have met to love each other, or to eat each other. Through love they created a new life, through eating, two life forms merged, part of them being excreted to nourish yet more life. This is what religious people call reincarnation and what scientists refer to as the food cycle. This philosophy is typical of the kind of traditional outlook on life are shared by the people of Asia and similar theories may be found in the writings and stories of ancient Europe, Africa or the native Indians. For this reason I feel that even before such concepts as science or religion became established in society, people shared an instinctive understanding of true meaning of life. No matter how original they may try to be, artists throughout the world can only exercise their creativity within the context of their genetic memory. My own genes contain several thousand years of memories, not only of Japan, but of Asia in general and like it or not, I am forced to work within the limits these imposes upon me. My sculptures owe their origins to the culture of ancient Chinese civilization. Not only are China and Japan very close geographically, but from the earliest times, China has had a profound influence on Japan both politically and culturally. China was as powerful in the East as Rome was in the West, absorbing culture and ideas from around the world then passing them on to the surrounding countries. In this respect the role it played could be said to be similar to that of the Mediterranean culture in Europe or even to the influence American culture has on the world today. Even things that seem uniquely Japanese can be found to have their roots in ancient China and for this reason, it can be said that of my works can be traced back to their roots in China, Eurasia and even India. |
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