Description of the work (required) * Please provide a description of the work and its concept in 50 words or more. (Please also include a description of the materials and techniques used if you wish.) Portrait of the Sphinx, 2006, print 2023 [Digital photograph, Giclee print, Hahnemühle, Alpoly process] This work utilizes the fluctuation of the human mind.
The figures in the image appear to have their eyes closed or open.
It is a device for exchanging gazes in which "seeing" and "being seen" occur simultaneously.
When we see an object, our brain interprets and judges what we see on our retina.
Even when we see the same object, what we see differs from person to person and from time to time.
A work of art is like a mirror that reflects the mind of the viewer.
The idea was originally inspired by Hideki Nakamura's paper on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which showed that the left and right gazes are different from each other.
The Sphinx is a monster or sacred being in Greek mythology that asks questions.
This work asks the questions, "Do you really see the world?
This work was created during his residency as an artist-in-residence in the United States. Initially, it was projected on the wall. This time, it will be exhibited as a printed work. It was exhibited in the exhibition "Close Your Eyes: The Present of Seeing" at the Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, and has also been exhibited at Art Center G18 in Helsinki, Finland, and Il Rivellino LDV Gallery in Locarno, Switzerland, which is said to have been designed by da Vinci.