Heart / Distance

Title of Work: Distance / Heart
Year of Creation: Apr 2020
Dimensions: 89 x 122 cm (Height x Width)
Medium: Digital Media
Technique: Photo Collage

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This work expresses the importance of acting with consideration for everyone, not just oneself, amidst the current complex global situation where it is difficult to predict the end point.

Using multidimensional arrays in programming as an example, it shows that even complex structures are easy to handle once understood. However, now that the world has entered a major turning point that occurs once every thousand years, I believe that being trapped in individual frameworks and feeling a divide between self and others will not lead to a higher level of understanding.

For humanity to advance to the next stage, we are required to care for others as we do for ourselves, and I am questioning whether what we call the "heart" is merely a cage called the "spirit" that protects the ego.

Even while in a state of "separation" due to wearing masks and keeping distance from others, it shows a cycle where closed spaces are opened, and separation eventually leads to connection.

While my heart aches at the number of people around the world who have passed away, which is announced every day, I believe these are processes for the world to change in a better direction, and I trust that a day will come when we can look back and think of the present as an important process.

Love is always beyond the self.

This artwork expresses the importance of thinking about everyone, not just oneself, in the face of the current complex world situation where predicting the end point is difficult.

Using the example of multidimensional arrays in programming, it illustrates that complex structures become manageable once understood. However, as the world enters a once-in-a-millennium major turning point, the artist questions whether being confined to individual frameworks and feeling separation between self and others hinders higher understanding.

Advancing to the next stage requires us to care for others as we do for ourselves. The artist questions whether what we call the “heart” is truly the genuine heart or merely a cage called “spirit” that functions to protect the ego.

Despite being in a stage of “separation,” wearing masks and distancing ourselves, there exists a cycle where enclosed spaces are opened, and separation eventually leads to unity.

While deeply saddened by the daily number of lives lost worldwide, the artist believes this is a process occurring to transform the world for the better, and holds firm faith that a day will come when we can look back and recognize these times as an important phase.

Love is always beyond the self.

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