Introducing ‘I lick your badge’
“It seems more like a hamster cage than a painting”
“I guess I try to make paintings but they always fail and fall or deconstruct themselves in to objects. ‘I lick your badge’ is the first one I have ever made that hangs lightly from the ceiling – it is framed elegantly by the rest of the work in the room (also paintings and other constructions of light, wigs, origami and found objects).”
“There is a true music to object – and this sure can dance to it, it twists and it turns and it looks like a hybrid between Pinata and Patsy from Ab Fab’s beehive hairdo. A Pinata that has been smashed and then glued back together by a greedy and premature child trying to cover his bad tracks and a Patsy full of drugs cut by the witch in Spirited Away”
“So where does the painting come in? Well, there sure is still a surface but the surface moves and glosses – and as the material, bunched together as it is, is three-dimensional the painting becomes more like a dressing of a cake or adorning of a prop. Its just a bad cake and a bad prop that is subject to its positioning in the room – it is a war cake prop.”
“This prop is for battle then, to affect the room and dominate the space – yet it is so light and nothing with shit stuck in it”
“Are you Japanese?”
“No”
