Reconstructed hollow clay figures (Chubonaino Ruins in Hakodate City, Hokkaido)

A pottery sculpture made of clay, burned in a bonfire similar to earthenware from the Jomon period, and reproduced using techniques from that time.

A “clay figurine” is a “realistic sculpture” created based on a photograph to look like a photograph.

Paintings that look like photographs these days are sometimes called realistic paintings. Some are drawn by looking at actual scenes and people, but most of them are drawn by looking at photographs.

Looking at a painting and drawing is called reproduction. In sculpture, it is called mock-engraving.

There is also the word imitation. When it comes to imitation, it feels like a fake. It also feels disgusting and cheap. “Counterfeiting” is also one of the themes of my work. It can also be paraphrased as reality and fiction, and reality and fiction. I don't have a bad image of what I think of as a fake; it's a fake as a fact. Just as a photograph is not real, a painting like a photograph is not a photograph, much less a reality, paintings, sculptures, and works of art are fictional and fake. However, the work is real and material.

I look at photographs and make clay figurines by looking at photographs, just like drawing realistic paintings that look like photographs. Clay figurines are realistic sculptures. Instead of two to two dimensions like realistic paintings, they create three dimensions from two dimensions. Look at two-dimensional photographs taken of three-dimensional clay figures and create three-dimensional clay figurines.

With the exception of a few examples, almost all of the clay figurines express a “human figure,” which is a female figure.

The original three-dimensional figure of this clay figure “Hitogata” has been restored, and a two-dimensional “clay figure restoration map” has also been created. I imagined the original person from clay figurines representing women.

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A board stand is included so that it can be displayed upright.