Can you feel it?





story of "Numb"





During COVID lock down, people are prohibited to physically contact. We are limited to touch or feel each other. This situation make people like numb because we could not use full ability of human senses at the first time in their lives for most people.


This piece is a female half body torso with a fancy coat. There are a traditional Japanese bride on the left side and contemporary manga bride on right side reaching out each other hands. It is the moment of touching each other, the Japanese girls in history and contemporary worlds. Below the each girls, there are full bodies dressed up with beautiful bride costumes with smoke thought bubbles heads. On the traditional bride side, the bride wears a black bride kimono with our sacred traditional birds, crane which was a common bride dress for Samurai class in the past. The bubble says “Feel what worth dying for” with a human heart. At that time, women in Samurai class have to be prepare for death any time. On the contemporary side, the bride is the bride of my other piece “JP Girl B”. Her bubble says “Know what worth living for” with a human brain. The two bodies are also reaching out to each other. On the left arm there are a corset, a mouth eating a love drug and a corona virus below. On the right arm there are a perfume, a mouth eating drug and nuclear radiation icon below. These imply that human now become numb to feel or know the truth of reality just like being drugged.