1. Name
Daisuke Takeya
2. Medium
Anything that elementary school children would use in their art classes + oil paints (if they don't use it in their class).
3. Process
Contemplate, create, analyze, contemplate, create, analyze, contemplate, create, analyze... the process means as much as the finished product, because my practice is self-couseling, healing, and meditative.
4. Aesthetic
Something possibly 6 year olds and 90 year olds can enjoy. Something that people in Masai Mara in Kenya, Tibet, Yellow Knife, and Hong Kong can enjoy.
5. Aesthetic horror
Not sure...
6. At which point in your process you are cheating / a fraud
I am not cheating/a fraud... or everyone is. Every creation is inspired by something. Modern technology and the IT revolution changed the way we work drastically... Things that are called cheating/a fraud can be an "of course" thing in the future...
7. The elements by which you judge your work.
Artistic excellence, care, time spent, thoughts went through.
8. The basic unit of your work
Love and caring.
9. Which trends in [your medium] are the death of [your medium]
Nothing is new. No death in my lifetime.
10. What you have borrowed from whom
Children. Japanese pop. Japanese poetry. Abstract Expressionism. Baroque and Renaissance. Action Painting. Various art genres. Various music genres. Various film Genres.
11. What is completely your own
Nothing but everything. No one else on earth would have created my art but my work is based on everything I have experienced each day.
12. The most astonishing thing you have seen today
Gray sky.
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