Hikaru has been challenging the question "What is Japan?" in all of her works. In the past, there was "Japonism" that influenced the world, and in the present, there is "animation" or "subculture". What will happen next? What are the roots of Japan? How will the East and West come to terms with each other in the future, emerging from comparisons with the West?
So far, her interpretation of "Japan" is based on the following six points:
●Layers (like shoji screens, which allow the viewer to see through to the background and are layered)
●Delicacy, subtle nuance, water element, and quietness.
●Spatiality (extreme perspective, distortion of the image, and harmony of 2D and 3D views)
●Colors (black ink, white, vermilion, indigo and western fluorescent green)
●Asymmetry (comparison with Western symmetry, difference between monotheism and polytheism)
●Heaven and the underworld
The "P Series" is a series of patterns for zero-gravity space that can eventually be applied to textiles and wallpaper – represented by P1. Patterns are a kind of language, invisible to the eye, and I draw them assuming a weightless world.
