BED TOWN#67

Bed Town

In my work, I first create a screen using digital collages using city scenery and details taken with a smartphone as materials. The created screens are incorporated into textiles to create sculptural works.

Photos taken with smartphones are not symbolic motifs limited to a specific country or location, and focus on capturing unremarkable details that are often overlooked in everyday life.
We collect not particularly beautiful landscapes, such as electric wires, piping, ducts, and planters with unlimited grass that can grow anywhere in the city, but scenes with a sense of déjà vu where people can see the progress of people's lives and time with smartphones, which are familiar tools.

We will use digital collages to reconstruct photographs of different times and places that we have taken every day into a single flat landscape. The reason for digital collages is that by cutting out photographs (facts) raw and reconstructing them, it is possible to create “landscapes that actually exist but are not real” that share the same space and time that are factual and unfactual.

“Scenery that actually exists but isn't real” exists like a memory, is a landscape that everyone knows and doesn't know, close and far, where nostalgia and newness coexist, and I think it is inherent in everyone.

The BED TOWN series was created with the idea that everyone in the city was accepted when they saw people sleeping by the roadside or on the train because they were exhausted from work or play, and everyone was left indifferent while being able to sleep/be forgiven while being left indifferent, to simply accept all kinds of energy human activities, whether pure or unclean.

It's bad that it seems comfortable to be wrapped up in bursting energy.

Cities are crucibles. It's lovely after all.

Somewhere is someone's bed today too

Digital collage, digital printing, silkscreen