kayaki susumu

Born in Nagano

After working at a beauty salon in Tokyo, she went to the US with the intention of becoming a makeup artist.

Since I got to know a lot of people, I continued free cutting at the park for about 2 years without being able to understand words

During that time, he studied under various make-up artists.

After a backpacking trip around India from Thailand, Laos, and Nepal

Move the base of activities back to Tokyo

Free ideas raised in nature,

Have a unique vivid point of view nurtured by encounters with various people and cultures

Active in a wide range of fields regardless of genres such as fashion, beauty, and music.

In parallel with my current makeup activities

I created collage works based on my own makeup works.

For over 25 years, I have worked as a makeup artist.

Several years ago, I began creating collages using my own makeup work as source material,

reconstructing it through analog techniques.

Makeup work is a “team expression” created together with models, photographers, and retouchers.

While finding joy in that process,

I have also sought an expression completed solely by my own hands.

Deliberately cutting apart finished works and reassembling them.

Through this reconstructive act, which carries a certain violence, emerges an image of a woman that exists nowhere.

Destroy to remember, construct to forget.

Each piece crystallizes the time, thought, and technique I have accumulated,

becoming, in a sense, a homogenized image of womanhood.

And even the very idea—

this stance of “generating new ideas from what already exists”—

is a quiet message to consumer society,

and a practice of conceptual upcycling.