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Artist's Statement I was born into the Japanese high economic boom in a suburb of Tokyo -- in a place we refer to as a "Bed Town", which provided Japanese people of my generation with a vision of a brilliant future lying ahead. Most of my work has tried to reflect on High Capitalism's effect on our daily lives. One of the main focuses of my work is the tension between "reality" as it is perceived via the senses, and that which we can recognize as physically or objectively real. The reality of the senses is often remote from that which actually lies around us, and may in fact lie closer to illusion. It has become a feature of modern life that peoples' senses can no longer be relied on to distinguish between what is authentic and what is just a well-crafted fake. Amidst JapanÕs complex array of signs, even the truly authentic has become suspect as an imposter. One might even say that daily life consists of a ÒrealityÓ in which one never encounters anything authentically real. Momoyo Torimitsu |