Canon global

I don't know what it is to "be myself." Every single day I do the same things, in the same places, and I grow older.
I feel like each time I do this, something important is scraped away.
Sometimes I get frightened when I think about what remains.
Self-portraits are usually photographs of yourself, but if I can't sense myself from a photograph of myself, that can't be called a self-portrait.
It may be a way to show that I existed, but it is too absurd.

So how can I prove myself? How can I communicate myself to myself?
I think the answer to this can be found in my mind.

"dappigara" is my self-portrait.

The artist wrote "hikikomori (social withdrawal)" as the work's intention. I think this withdrawn sensitivity, this gloominess, is very raw in the pieces. I felt a sense of love and hate-especially hate-towards things that are recorded, whether they are photographs, videos or photocopies. In our society full of copies, there is a sense of despair in the insignificance of one's existence. For example, the artist took a photograph, and then made it one step cheaper by photocopying it. The emptiness of our society in which one cannot feel one's existence-. I felt them to be genuinely bleak photographs.