Kohei Nawa
Sunday, 11 October 2009
The “PixCell” sculptural concept… is an intervention into, or a manipulationof, reality. The “cell” provides many different functions - choice, transparency, substitution, amplification - and it links directly to the senses… The surface of the subject is covered in transparent glass beads, …[replacing it with] some kind of “light shell”. Seen through this shell, the object’s textures and colours are filtered and dissipated into the countless individual cells. Each cell is therefore an element in a new kind of visual media.
… Covered with the same shell, each piece has the same texture and sense of distance. This genuine feeling of paralysis attained… erases any deep feelings for the objects. The focus then becomes the connection between the sense of sight and tactility, which provides the foundations of our perception of reality. To the sense of sight, the world is a continuous series of surfaces… We detect… [with these surfaces]. That is why the decisive factor in determining [reality] is the texture of surface. This surface is the interface between our senses and external objects.
Text adapted from artist’s statement.