I am interested in the mechanism of human perception. For example, the color red is described as a single word red, but the color red pictured by each of us is different. They are the same yet different. Or they are different but same. This is the perceptual gap hidden in a conceptualized or iconized notion.I believe that modern society emphasizes the value of “shared notion” too much. This is summarized as “easy to understand”Ironically, “understand” means ”do not understand”. Socrates said his wisdom was limited to an awareness of his own ignorance…Modern society is similar to vegetables raised in a green house. They are artificial thus unnatural. Mother Nature can adapt to an unexpected environmental change by diversifying herself. People living in a modern society which eliminates diversity can be described as people raised in a green house. People learn less from homogenized information, so that quality of output will result in mediocrity. As a result, the whole society becomes simplified; people do not realize how many different reds exist. This society eliminates alien elements. A straightforward example is the manner in which people easily loose their temper.What I would like to express is the gap, blank space or atmosphere between classified notions. By combining, displacing and installing stacks of generalized human body shapes and some meaningful objects within a three dimension space, viewers perceive something hidden between their consciousnesses. It is important to know what we do not know, but we should also realize that we do not know what we used to know.

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