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My first painting series “Guardian Deities in the City” was street objects of New York City. It was started in 1980 using egg tempera which was medieval techniques and materials. The painting was a kind of craft man’s works. Each painting was put together little by little.
The next egg tempera series “Waves” was concrete image but had abstract forms.
Around 1990, I became more interested in about surrounding phenomenonor cause than objects itself. The following series “Movement” or “Streams ...” was started. I needed very careful plans and visualizing skills. When I started to paint on a wood panel, I could not change a plan because of the techniques and materials. I began to use a computer for making schemes of my painting.
After using a computer, I could make many variations of schemes very fast and could consider plans very well. But after that my visual consciousness was broken into different directions. One direction was into the invisible electronic world, and another one was in real material space.
Visual artists have struggled with basic materials by hands labor since a cave. They have to think with their hands. It has been a quite basic activity for artists, and made art histories. But I am not sure in very near future. Year by year, our consciousness is going into an unreal world. We can not go anywhere from this material world though. Our body and activities must remain in here. However we may belong to the last age of materials and tangible art history world.
I started "Interactive Web Art" in 1996.
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