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Primitive Future is my sculpture series which is cohesively
developed
together with my painting series Future Primitive. These
sculptures are
created by assembling together abandoned objects
that I found in Harlem, NY, where I’m currently living. I see
those
found objects as fragments of the local culture that have been
exposed
to weathering and have lost their original functions. My aim was
to
create plant-like shapes by extracting elements, that look
organic, out
of them and re-assembling them. Then, by presenting them as a
group of
sculptures, I attempt to create a space in which we can’t
recognize a
clear borderline between human made and nature. The idea for these sculptures came from my experience of growing up in my hometown, a suburb in the small city Kochi, Japan, in the 90’s when the Japanese economy collapsed. Many local businesses were closed and empty houses and vacant lots were popping up. I was surrounded by many things that seemed to be melting into the surrounding nature, such as abandoned cars, rusty playground equipment and postponed construction sites. They looked like fusions between human activity and the surrounding nature. Both Future Primitive and Primitive Future aim at recreating this environment that gives us difficulty in drawing boundaries between human territory and the surrounding nature. |
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| Primitive Future I 2017 16x8x8 inch mixed media |
Primitive Future II 2017 47x8x7 inch mixed media |
Primitive Future III 2017 29x7x8 inch mixed media |
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| Primitive Future IV 2017 32x20x25 inch mixed media |
Primitive Future V 2017 16x8x13 inch mixed media |
Primitive Future VI 2017 42x11x2 inch mixed media |
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| Primitive Future VII 2017 63x11x11 inch mixed media |
Primitive Future VIII 2017 47x11x7 inch mixed media |
Primitive Future IX 2017 57x24x24 inch mixed media |