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ryohei hase

Electonic illustrations

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Sometimes dreams and nightmares inspire my work. I really enjoy looking back at dreams especially when I had really fantastic ones as they could come from feelings deep in my mind. Remembering dreams is not very easy after waking up, but it is very interesting as it is like a finding treasure filled with ideas.

Perhaps I am trying to capture the emotion of ruins, where part of what exists now is a hardly visible memory of what existed before. This air of memory that is not physically there but still lives on without ever completely disappearing: it creates a beautiful space that I strive to represent.

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V E N A 2

Objects and drawings

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"There is no other redemption for humankind that acknowledging its own divinity"

This idea underlines the structure of VENA2, a project that sees the creative process as a quest in which the sacred permeates and shapes the profane world, using nature as a medium for communicating with the divine.

VENA2 understands nature as the beginning and end of a Whole, referring to the very identity of creation. Perception is what bridges divinity and the unflagging search for knowledge, with the basic virtue of innocence suggested as the ideal terrain for creating a purer, more direct channel of communication with the spectator.

The artist depicts himself metaphorically as a stag climbing toward the heights, as a mediator between the mundane and the divine, living in resonance, in communication with the nature through his antlers. They act as antennae communicating with trees, which contain the divine ancestral information.