... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.
Mariko MoriI must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.
Mariko MoriWe've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them
Mariko MoriI am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect them with contemporary life through the technology we have now.
Mariko Mori