To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

Art is basically entertainment.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury raised cautions against mass media, especially the television, which dumb down human sensibilities and coerce everybody's thoughts into a single uniform value, allowing human to forget the fundamental action of "having one's opinion". As a result, the society deteriorates. I decided to exhibit [Edward] Kienholz's work which features television as its subject, as well as the Big Double Cross as works that represent this warning.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.