ARTIST STATEMENT

UNDERCOVER

These are fantasy pictures I drew during my adolescence. I had not yet touched a girl, and existed in a transitory, completely pure state. So this is the incarnation of my desires and fantasies.

When I was a virgin, women were frightening, yet erotic. I was completely ignorant of the world beyond school uniforms (though there were a lot of information leaks), so I just had to use my imagination.

Even so, I grew older, got to know about women, and before I knew it had got married. I now realize that I was bidding farewell to the “child in me,” who was desperate to find out more, and confronting the “adult in me,” who had come to know so much.

The world is full of things that we need to know about. But there are some things we're happier not knowing about. When I was young, my ability to imagine things that I as yet knew nothing about was keen and strong!

I led a solitary existence, unfulfilled and unable to see. Fragile yet burning, the sullen desire of adolescence. The cycle of being tickled, and then finally smoldering. This is what made my youth so delicate and fantastic.

I can't return to that stage of my life, even though I wouldn't mind doing so. I feel as though the desires and dreams of my youth are the magma that produced this work. Although statements like that are exaggerations, they might ultimately represent my adult self's pursuit of fetishism.

Thank you very much for choosing my work.

Entries form: Type-C print with frame, 500 mm x 500 mm, 9 prints