Tamaki Kawaguchi

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Artist Statement
Finding fascination with the unexpected beauty of environment sometimes illuminates mundane everyday life. When a room exposed to the western sun are filled with full of light, when tap makes musical performance, tick tack of a clock, and a spider web in a corner of, brightened dust with morning gentle light. It brings memory and identity of which we have experienced as a child hood and now and future. Nothing will be changed. It always surrounds you and me. It is natural beauty in everyday life, I believe.

Now I am applying a concept of frames from onto transparent materials to everyday object and every thing everywhere, since I am finding the spectacle in the everyday life and space.
There are numbers of infinite places where I could possibly apply it as of painting, such as the corner of a room, the space between the legs of a chair, a window of an abandoned computer, a TV, the surface or the inside of a cloth, milk bottles after drinking everyday and so on. Transparent materials are substitutes for the space between.
It could be on anything anywhere. It could especially be on the ‘everyday’ space where we don’t even notice.

I presume these spaces as frames, and because my canvas is always transparent the material allows for the connection between what I painted and the space. Both will be blended. The boundary will be the point of union.

It could be discovery nature in corrupted human technology.

It is like that you find weed between gaps of concrete. Hope and despair are being in existence in next door. It is poignant, transient, unintentional, innocent and something in which the work of art speaks for itself. It is like ‘Aura’ by Water Benjamin’s notion.

The frame as anything whatever is not only everyday objects but also a place as projection of one’s self. It also reflects the inside of one’s bodily matter, one’s identity and memory.
The ideas of the interior psychic space and of the outside are meant to integrate beyond the boundary in the mundane environment.

Tamaki Kawaguchi