- Looking back, I think the first time I met n-buna was at EX Theater in March 2018.
Two years later, they began working together on the cover and video for YORUSHIKA 's album "Plagiarism."
Other than that, we occasionally message each other on LINE, and have eaten out together a few times to chat about what's going on in our lives and our interests.
As a result of this, he came to see my solo exhibition "lodestone" in March of this year.
I remember n-buna who took his time to look at the exhibition, saying, "I want to do something. I want to see how this work can be made." - They decided on the theme of "sun" and created a piece together. YORUSHIKA produced the music.
I create collages. I record the process on video and make a music video.
The resulting image becomes the song jacket.
They decided not to share anything with each other until both works were completed. - I asked my old friend, director Shimizu Yasuhiko, to make this music video, and only gave him a link to the unmixed audio data.
- Big and bright and warm, burning in the middle, illuminating.
Drawn by the image of this abstract existence, I wandered around cutting paper, picking up the pieces and pasting them down.
The shoot lasted more than ten hours, producing a total of five pieces (though some were not completed on the spot and were completed later), and then the day ended.
A few days later, the idea came to me to release the work I had created and recreate the image on the cover.
I realized at that moment that the experiment, "The Sun," would be completed by exhibiting it and letting everyone see it for themselves. - In the end, the first time I heard YORUSHIKA 's "Taiyou" was when the edited music video was completed.
They are somehow interestingly linked, yet also very different.
The image of "the sun" that Nagato and YORUSHIKA came up with. I would be very happy if you enjoy the collage and the song. - Tetsuya Nagato
- I feel a pure joy when I see someone who clearly has different elements from me. Creating a work is like a conversation with myself, and even if I were to talk to someone similar to me outside of the work, it would be completely boring. The only truly interesting thing is outside of my imagination.
Tetsuya Nagato 's works always have a vivid sense of floating. They are like improvised jazz, but at the same time, they have a calculated puzzle-like inevitability, and at other times, they have moments of childlike innocence. He creates collages using any material, from old books to digital data released by museums, and then exhibits the collage art as 3D printed sculptures in real life.
The starting point of "Taiyo" was to see what kind of differences we could see between Tetsuya Nagato and I, who shared the same theme and created two different works, music and graphics. We decided to ask Nagato to create a painting. At the same time, we decided to film the process of creating the work and compile it into a video. After a while, when I looked at the finished work, I found that he had not created one painting, but for some reason five paintings. The video did not end with the creation of the painting, and in the end he began to create something huge by pasting paintings and feathers on the wall. It was only supposed to be a single painting. I felt somehow inexplicably happy. - n-buna
