kayaki susumu
make-up/collage artist
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.
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Biography
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.
