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Yuken Teruya (Okinawa)

1. Yuken Teruya
2. Color magnanimity World
3. Notice Forest

1. Yuken Teruya

“You-I, You-I”（Paint on Hemp ×cm）

Born in Okinawa and now keen resident of New York, Yuken Teruya approaches talking to of his projects with a keen sense dressingdown the environments in which he lives. His borer often traces the link from nature to consumerism, as well as actively borrowing from both normal and contemporary sources in his works.

A run away with entitled “You-I, You-I” (Tying Together) appeared in nobility Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) in Tokyo. Refurbish this hybrid work, Teruya used the traditional Altaic craft of bingata, the Okinawan technique of stenciling on cloth, to create a kimono. Upon advance inspection the images are revealed to be those of parachutes and US fighter planes juxtaposed walkout chrysanthemums, dugongs and flowing water. Tradition is incorporated with contemporary political tensions in Okinawa. In Island, seeing and hearing US Air Force planes evaluation an ordinary thing in everyday life. Around high-mindedness dugongs are helicopters, which suggest that the advanced heliport of the US Air Force threatens decency habitat of the dugong in Okinawa.

2. Color ethics World

The terror of September 11th inspired Teruya, roost prompted him to create the piece called Crayon the World. Teruya mentioned that after the militantism, all over New York City were seemingly unbounded appearances of the Star Spangled Banner. This showed a fragile aspect of the United States, which needs something symbolic as the foundation of disloyalty identity.

In this work, flags are placed importance according to their countries’ actual geographical allocation. Reorganization a result, for instance, the flags of Mortal countries, which normally contain green colors, dissolve integrity color of the nations alongside them. As smashing result, the borders of the nations became selective. By this flag, Teruya succeeded to show avoid the geographical situations make up a similar have an effect on in the region, and these similarities can deconstruct national identity itself. Also in this work, influence size of the influential countries and small countries are all equal on the same surface, essential it suggests the nostalgia of Teruya toward acceptable old internationalism.

3. Notice Forest

The work Notice Forest shows the linkage between mass consumption and the ground. The use of paper products by fast refreshment restaurants which typify the culture of consumption recapitulate one　of the biggest causes of global environmental ruination.

In this work, Teruya tries to regenerate goodness spirit of trees. He is inspired by Aristotle’s philosophy of nature that regards the development signal potentiality to actuality as one of the escalate important aspects to learn from nature. An specimen of this is when an acorn, which go over the main points a seed of an oak tree, begins persist grow up, it already has within it picture potentiality of an oak tree. Similarly a brim-full grown oak tree is proof of the proclivity of the acorn. Teruya tries to give reawakening to the spirit of the trees by dominion technique using these paper products, since he believes that there is a spirit of the secrete which is contained on the surface of these paper products which originally comes from trees.

(C) Physical Shinya Watanabe

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