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Artist's Statement I currently strive to make work which keeps the innocent, honest integrity of adolescent playfulness, but on a more grand and sophisticated level. In "Air Show", I created airborne doll houses in the form of various aircrafts constructed from materials such as cardboard, fabric, pieces of my own clothing, and other materials -- including cheaply manufactured objects found or bought in thrift stores, 99 cent stores, or shops in Chinatown. The dolls that ride in, or pilot these planes are clothed in miniature versions of the types of clothing that interest me. Their faces are from photographs that have been transferred on, and usually derive from Western Pop Culture, and often are members of '60s bands or actors favored by me. In my work, you are likely to see post Beatles Ringo Starr piloting a small aircraft co-piloted by R2D2 and C3PO, or an entire commercial airliner piloted and staffed by several versions of myself. Misaki Kawai |