The Accident of Land and Time
In the end, we are all kept alive by the land and the era we happened to be born into.
I feel that truth every time I use the internet and AI.
In the past, for a painter to be seen at all, you needed connections, luck, or the privileges of the “already-included.”
Today, some of those walls have cracked, and things that were once impossible have become ordinary options.
The New Gate Opened by Technology
Human history stretches across tens of thousands of years.
Culture has been carried forward bit by bit, reflected, rewritten, and somehow, through that chain, I ended up here.
A tiny shift and I might never have been born at all.
I was even told once, “We almost decided not to have you.”
Maybe that is why I think so much about why I exist here.
Those Who Act and Those Who Don't
Even with the internet and AI, most people will not move.
Building an English site and mass-producing these pain-in-the-ass articles—most artists would never do it.
They cannot, or they do not see the point.
That is exactly where intention and resolve create a gap.
That part has not changed across eras.
Choosing to Live with Unevenness
Uneven is fine.
By expressing, I make the most of the moment I am inside.
That has become my definition of living.
And along that trajectory, “Super Dekoboko” was born exactly as it should have been.
Sentimental, maybe, but that is how it feels today.