THAT'S BECAUSE

▷LITERATURE

photographed by Souichiro Ota

That's because I love you

written by Souichiro Ota

why I met with you

that's because I love you

why I'm talking with you

that's because I love you

why I go to where you are

that's because I love you

why I look you

that's also because I love you

why I know your name

that's because I love you

why I remember what you said

that's because I love you

why I care about you

that's because I love you

why I send a letter to you

that's because I love you

why I have a meal with you

that's because I love you

why I worry about you

that's also because I love you

and why I'm writing this on here

that's because I love you

TIME TO FIND OUT A SELBSTACHTUNG

▷ PHOTOGRAPHY 

photographed by Souichiro Ota

model : moé suzuki

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To accelerate with a rapid speed of nowadays, in combination with internationalization of development, Japanese aesthetics spread to the worldwide, and be recognized, began to attract attention in any fields. Formerly in painting area, Tsuguharu Fujita, Hokusai Katsushika, Hiroshige Ando (Utagawa) played an active part, and Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Kansai Yamamoto did in fashion area, and in the photograph case, Daido Moriyama, Hiroshi Sugimoto, in the film area was Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa has so many enthusiasts even in the foreign countries, in the literature, of course " Yukio Mishima Nerd " are existing not only in Japan. And in particularly, as recent topics, Japanese cuisine called " Washoku " was certified to Intangible Cultural Heritage also fresh in our mind. And commonly referred to as " Tokyo Street Fashion " is going to be target and subject to be gaze from various designers and artists. And what to call Japan Quality is not only for making things, it is beginning to consciousness as important elements of engagement and courtesy in the world. It is no exaggeration to say that it might have been that Japan is a big fad now in the world. ; as far as I intended to used an expression of modesty. In fact, the number of that people who came from oversea visited to japan in this year was forty thousand eighty. this is twenty-five percent increase over last year.  And if it is, it's sure that Olympiad in 2020 will be peak of first phase and one stop. It's enough to time of having a confidence on own country's culture, every national should have.

昨今の急速な早さで加速し、発展する国際化も相まって、日本の美感が世界に広まり、認知され、あらゆる分野において注目されるようになりました。絵画においてはかつて、藤田嗣治、葛飾北斎、安藤広重らが懸命に活動し、ファッションでは山本耀司、川久保玲、三宅一生、山本寛斎、写真では森山大道や杉本博司、映画では小津安二郎、黒澤明らが海外でも熱狂的ファンがみられるし、文学ではやはり"三島由紀夫オタク"は今や日本に限った話ではなくなってきている。そしてとくに最近では日本食が世界無形文化遺産になったのも記憶に新しい。そして数年前からの俗にいう"東京ストリートファッション"も今や様々なデザイナーやアーティストが題材にしたり、注視する的だ。そしてジャパンクオリティーと云われるのは何も物作りに置いてのみではなく、礼儀作法やアンガージュマンとしての重要な要素だと世界で意識し始められている。いま世界で日本ブームだと言っても過言ではないかもしれない。（出来る限りの謙虚さを持ち合わせた表現にしたつもりだ。）現に、今年日本に訪れた外国人の数は84万人だ。これは去年の25パーセント増である。そして今のままなら、東京オリンピックがまず第一段階のピークであり、一区切りになることは間違いないだろう。もう日本が、国民全体が、自国の文化に自信を持ってもいいんではないだろうか。

AICHI TRIENNALE IN OKAZAKI PART 5

▷ART / EVENT

R O O F

by studio velocity

my friend who visited here said to me " the most bright place ever I've visited " that words were so impressive and it acted to let me go there. actually I already visited twice when the fireworks festival in okazaki in early august. however, at that time here was quite changed to dark coz of in night, and I couldn't see the complete view. and other time were totally overcast day. therefore, it was exactly third time lucky. this works named " roof " was made by studio velocity which constructed by kurihara kentaro and iwatsuki miho literally located on the roof of CIBICO where going to be main venue in okazaki. ここを訪れた僕の友達がこう言った。"今までで一番眩しい場所だったよ！"そしてその言葉はとても印象に残り、よし、行ってみようという気にさせた。実は以前に二回来た事があったが、８月初めの岡崎での花火大会の時は完全に夜だったので闇に包まれていて完成図を見る事はできなかったし、別の時は完全に一面曇り空でした。したがって、正に三度目の正直となりました。この栗原健太郎と岩月美穂によって構成されるstudio velocityによって作られた"roof"という作品は文字通り岡崎のメイン会場になっているシビコの屋上にあります。

Studio Velocity

Kurihara was born in saitama prefecture and Iwatsuki in aichi prefecture, both in 1977. these two young architects both worked with junya ishigami + associates before setting up studio velocity in 2006. they gave birth to a new architectural vision, in which avant-garde designs coexist with the cute. this has brought them a lot of attention in japan and overseas. in their "curved little house ", built as a nagoya beautician's premises, they made clever use of a gentle curve to increase the internal space. they have designed several homes in okazaki, including the " montblanc house ", distinctive for its high triangular roof with the space beneath divided into multiple small rooms, terraces and courtyards, and " sky-view ground floor, city-like top floor" which is circular in form, with each floor creating a totally different world. construction of their " aichi sangyo university educational center for language and IT ", plans for which were displayed at palazzo bembo during the 13th venice architecture biennale, has just been completed in 2013. their solo exhibition, entitled " fluctuation " featured some exquisite environmentally sensitive installations, such as a free-standing structure made with ultra-thin film only 0.25mm thick, and micro-models likening the scratches and cracks on the floor to landscapes.

埼玉出身の栗原さんと愛知出身の岩月さんは共に1977年生まれで、石上純也建築設計事務所勤務を経て、studio velocityを設立。前衛的なデザインとかわいらしさが共存する新しい感覚の作品によって、国内外の注目を集める若手建築家ユニット。名古屋の美容室"曲線の小さなワンルーム"では敷地にぐにゃっと湾曲するボリュームを巧みに配置。岡崎では、"白い山のような家"や"空の見える下階と街のような上階"などの住宅を手がける。前者は大きな三角屋根の内部に小さく分節された部屋群、テラスや中庭を抱え、様々な見せ場を持つ。後者は円形のプランの上下に別世界を展開させる。第１３回ヴェネチアビエンナーレ国際建築展で展示した"愛知産業大学言語・情報共育センター"は2013年に竣工し、彼らの最新作となる。また、ゆらぎを意味するタイトルの個展、"fluctuation" では、0.25mmの極薄フィルムを垂直に自立させた構築物や、床の傷やひび割れをランドスケープに見立てたマイクロ模型など、環境に応答する繊細なインスタレーションを発表した。

can you believe what this all white were repainted by two of studio velocity!? this venue, cibico was actually decrepit department store. I have no idea how many white paint cans were used for this. unfortunately, I couldn't photographed on the picts, (tbh, I forgot to take for only.) in this work, the thin kite  strings which can not be visually are spread around as diced state at approximately 2 meters overhead of us. I promptly felt one thing. the landscape which I see through the strings was as if like the digital picture which is pixelated. this impressions was figured out coz of I am photographer. I intuitively felt something like resistance notion which against to disrupting the aesthetics in this digitalize society. and this inescapable blindness is exactly makes me feel that blind development of modern era by digitalize, and we feel that are concerned it might be connected to loss of eyesight someday.   

このあたり一面の白をstudio velocityの二人が塗り替えたのを信じれますか！？この会場、シビコは事実、老朽化した百貨店でした。いったいいくつの白ペンキが使われたのか想像もつきません。残念ながら、写真に残すことはできませんでしたが、(実際は忘れてました。笑)この作品にはおよそ頭上２メートルほどの所に賽の目状に視覚できないほど細い蛸糸が張り巡らされているのです。僕はすぐさま感じ取りました。その糸を通して見た景色は、まるでピクセル化されたデジタル写真のようでした。これは写真家としてだからこその感想かもしれませんが、何かデジタル化する社会における美意識の破壊のようなものを直感的に感じました。そして避けられないこの眩しさこそ、そのデジタル化における現代の盲目的発展、そしていつかそれは失明に繋がってしまうのではないかという懸念さえ感じます。

words and photography by Souichiro Ota

AICHI TRIENNALE IN OKAZAKI PART 4

▷ART / EVENT

FALLING

BY MUKAIYAMA Tomoko + Jean KALMAN

at 5F Okazaki CIBICO, Kosei site

set in the floor of a department store that is no longer in use, two artists living in europe create an installation / performance composed of a set of binary concepts such as light and darkness, sound and silence, and a human and an object. a small trip around life and death or history and memory, which each viewer experiences individually, is also a ritual from death towards regeneration. and also this exhibition is a world premiere. 使われなくなった百貨店のフロアを舞台に、ヨーロッパ在住の２作家がつくりあげる光と闇、音と沈黙、人と物で構成されるインスタレーション / パフォーマンス。鑑賞者が個別に体験する生と死、歴史と記憶を巡る小さな旅は、死から再生へと向かう儀式でもある。 またこの展示は世界初演になる。

MUKAIYAMA Tomoko who based in Amsterdam. since winning first prize at the international gaudeamus piano competition in 1991, tomoko mukaiyama has been performing as a pianist with prestigious orchestras and ensembles around the world. she has also collaborated with film directors, designers, architects, photographers and choreographers. in recent years, she has extended her artistic practice to visual art, exhibiting installation works such as for you at Yokohama Triennale 2005, you and bach at Sydney Biennial 2006, and wasted at the Echigo-Tsumari art Triennale 2009. she directed and performed dance performance " shirokuro " at dance Triennale tokyo 2012.

Jean KALMAN who born 1945 in Paris has worked extensively as designer and lighting designer for dance, theatre and opera since 1979. he has collaborated for stage productions with artists such as Karel Appel, Georg Baselitz, Iannis Kounellis, Anish Kapoor and the composers Mauricio Kagel and Heiner Goebbels. with Cristian Boltanski he cosigned a number of installations in particular at the Echigo-Tsumari art Triennale. in 1991 he received the Lawrence Olivier Award for best lighting designer. was nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design, Drama Desk Award in 2011. since 2012 he is associated artist to Royal Shakespeare Company.

as you can recognize from this pict, the uncountable newspapers were paved in their venue. specific meaning are not particularly disclosed by them. but we can read that meaning is something enormous historical recollection in this world. the different type of pianos also were used for installation as you can see on picts. as if like for reminding an old memories in childhood that like the first contact with music. or might be meaning that music has a power to finish the music. perhaps as described above, MUKAIYAMA Tomoko were pianist before, that is most relative meaning I think. but I don't know details. a roaring sound resounded in the venue and the light which perceive the sense of crisis scattered the sense of tension all around makes me feel that I am in the battlefield. as they explained this state was the way which going to birth from the death. the war was such a term by some chance. in any case, but this tremendous decadent atmosphere was unexpectedly cosy place to me. この写真からも分かるように、数えきれない量の新聞紙が会場に敷き詰められていました。何か特定な意味はアーティストからは開示されてませんが、何かこの世界の膨大な歴史の追憶を意味させるような気もします。写真でもみれるように様々な違ったタイプのピアノがインスタレーションで使われていました。まるで子どもの頃の音楽との出会いのような古い思い出を想起させます。または音楽は戦争を終わらせれる力があるという意味なのかもしれません。おそらく上記でも記したように、詳しくはわかりませんが、向山ともこさんは以前ピアニストでしたのでそれが関係しているでしょう。会場にはごうごうという音が轟いていて、危機感を感じさせるような光が緊張感を散らしていました。私はまるで自分が戦場にいるかのように感じさえしました。彼らがこの状態によって説明したのは死から誕生でした。もしかしたら戦争とはそんな期間なのかもしれません。いずれにしろ、この途方も無い退廃的な雰囲気は私には思いのほか心地よいものでした。

words and photography by Souichiro Ota

AICHI TRIENNALE IN OKAZAKI PART 3

▷ART / EVENT 

A R I E L

SHLESINGER

part 3 of aichi triennale introduction starts with ariel shlesinger's works. he is the artist from israel based in Berlin and he has been creating works of " critical " state. recently, he exhibited in Tel Aviv a series of works in which he combined a photo of a broken glass widow with the actual broken glass as well as pieces of inside-out pottery lined up on the floor. in okazaki, he presented a work of destruction and attempt to repair it.　あいちトリエンナーレ紹介パート3はアリエル・シュレジンガーの作品からスタートします。彼はベルリンベースに活動するイスラエル出身のアーティストで「危機」的な状態を作品化してきたアーティスト。近年テルアビブで発表した割れた窓ガラスの写真とその割れたガラスを組み合わせて見せた作品と、表と裏をひっくり返した陶器を床に並べるシリーズ作品を岡崎でも発表した。破壊とその修復の試みが示された。

what I personally felt from his works of glass was that to using a sprung glass means something like the hurts and unforgettable memories of the past which came from love, friendship, some fear like traffic accident and natural disaster something like this time. and everyone who got it will try to overcome from that pain. but it's not easy as everyone knows. in fact, there are some people who still insurmountable about it. but I thought this works are kind of things for such a persons. what I interpreted from this works is that to affirmation for such a people. also, it means that discovering the beauty which they and such a mind has. as if like a crystal of memories and pain which constructed by past. and I guess that crystal will reconstruct a new significance of existence. and I thought something like this works which made by cracked ceramic exactly might be eggs of hope. 私が個人的に彼のガラスの作品から感じたのは、ヒビの入ったガラスを使う事で何か恋愛や友達関係であったり、事故や今回の震災のようなものからきた痛みや忘れられない過去の記憶を意味していると思います。そしてそれらを抱える全ての人達がそういった辛さから克服をしようとするでしょう。しかし誰もが知っているようにそれは簡単なことではありません。事実、それをまだ克服できずにいる人達もいることでしょう。しかし、この作品はそういった人達の為のようなものではないかと私は思いました。私がこの作品から解釈したのはそういった人達の対する肯定です。その意味は彼らやそんな気持ちが持ち合わせている、まるで過去によって構成された悲しみと思い出の結晶という美しさの発見です。そしてその結晶は新たな存在意義を再構築すると思います。そしてこの割れた陶器から作られた作品はまさにそんな希望の卵といえるでしょう。

words and photography by Souichiro Ota

AICHI TRIENNALE IN OKAZAKI PART 2

▷ART / EVENT

" missing river "

by Youki Hirakawa

at former renjaku showroom

aichi triennale introduction part 2. (part 1 is here→AICHI TRIENNALE IN OKAZAKI - part 1 - ) so, can you guess what is this pict? this interesting work is made by Youki Hirakawa from Japan. Hirakawa deals with diverse themes such as fragmented and dangling modern stories in characterless urban setting as well as peculiar entities rooted to a particular place, and continues to present htese as hard static images. this time he did a exhibit a work based on his fieldwork in okazaki concerning the memory of a past water disaster that occurred there. AICHIトリエンナーレ紹介のパート２をお送りします。この写真が一体何かわかりますか？この興味深い作品は日本の平川祐樹さんによるもので、彼は非個性的な都市で断片化し宙吊りになった現代の物語や、場所に深く根付く固有の存在など多様なテーマを静的で硬質なイメージで提示し続けている作家です。今回岡崎のフィールドワークを通じ、土地の過去の水難の記憶を扱った作品を展示しました。

what I personally thought was about relevance of death and living on this black and white material. and I guess you also though, I also thought that as if like a waxing and waning of the moon or some planet. and at the same time, I thought that light and dark, hope and despair, and even the birth of life. in fact, this work was moving permanently on the screen. something white one like foam are covering the black space very gradually. this phenomenon makes us to feel that we are getting on some otherwordly creature which means that we need to see our planet with objectivity and as some creature who live together in this same space. also this phenomenon also remind the end of the day of this earth by meteorite us. I have no idea about Mr.Hirakawa intended to think it to everyone. in any case, I think this work has one consistency about the something facing subject. and which means the balance is important and doing the domination on this world and in the cosmic scale. 私が個人的に思ったのは白黒のマテリアルにおける生と死の関連性です。そしておそらくあなたも思ったと思いますが、まるで月の満ち欠けか何かの惑星のようです。さらに、光と闇、希望と絶望、そして生命の誕生も想起しました。実際、この作品は永久的にずっとスクリーン内で動き続けており、何か白い泡のようなものが黒いスペースをゆっくりと覆っていきます。この現象は私たちが何か別世界の生物になっているかのように感じさせ、それは私たちが自分たちの地球を客観的にそしてこの同じ宇宙に一緒に住む生き物として見る必要があると思わせます。またこの現象は私たちに隕石による地球滅亡の日を想起させます。平川さんがそのように意図したかはわかりませんがいずれにせよ、この作品は何か一貫した主題に対峙しているように感じます。そしてそれはバランスこそがこの世界、宇宙規模において支配し、同時にいかに重要かを意味しているように思われます。

words and photography by Souichiro Ota

AICHI TRIENNALE IN OKAZAKI - part 1 -

▷ART / EVENT

" sun child " by Kenji Yanobe at aichi arts center   /   photo by Souichiro Ota

at the present time,  the " aichi triennale 2013 " is holding at Nagoya and Okazaki city from August 10th to October 27th. and this time me neither joined and participated to setting for venue of some artist. and finally I went and saw several parts of this. this time I'd like to introduce of okazaki venue.

現在、愛知県の名古屋市と岡崎市にて「AICHIトリエンナーレ2013」が８月１０日から１０月２７日まで開催されています。今回、僕も会場のセッティングに携わらせてもらいました。９月になりましたがようやく一部いってきましたので、まず岡崎の会場を紹介したいと思います。

to begin with this event called " aichi triennale " was started in last year, and japan's largest international arts festival. this year, 122 artists from japan and overseas gathered to create cutting-edge art in every possible discipline, including contemporary art, performing arts, opera, film, architecture and much more.

そもそも、AICHIトリエンナーレというイベントは去年はじまり、二回目となる今年は日本国内外から１２２組のアーティストの方々が参加され、コンテンポラリーアート、パフォーミングアート、オペラ、映像、建築など様々な最先端芸術作品を展示してあります。

the map of okazaki venue is going to be something like this

it's better to use a bus from higashi okazaki station and please get off at kousei or nomicho. then, let's start the introduction of okazaki venue. as you can see in the map, the venues in okazaki are separating with three parts mainly. and this time I'll show you some works of Kosei and Matsumoto-cho.

康生や松本町の会場に行くには、東岡崎駅からバスで康生か能見町で降りて頂くと便利です。

m a t s u m o t o - c h o   v e n u e

" ふりそそぐもの " 

青木野枝

 " furi sosogu mono "

 (means pouring things)

by Noe Aoki

at former azami hair salon

" 床▶S▶M〆の入舟 "

山下 拓也

" floor ▶ S ▶M〆of a ship entering port "

by Takuya Yamashita

at former Irifune

" wish tree "

by Yoko Ono

at shououji-temple

have you heard this project by Yoko Ono before? in this time, I was second times to do this wish tree. the first time when I joined was at Serpentine gallery in London in 2012 that was tern during her exhibition in there. I would say that sometimes I meet with someone who don't know that Yoko Ono is the Artist and just widow of john lennon. but it's totally embarrassed thing. don't forget that Yoko Ono as an artist saved John Lennon. and this time I described on "Tanzaku" which is this white paper means that by what to describe something you wish might come true was " HOPE ". in fact, I didn't figured out anything about what I wish. coz I personally think what I want to be is not worth to describe on it. that's just what I have to grant by myself. and the reason why I described the HOPE was I wished everyone (especially who has own dream and living for it ) don't forget the hope even if you are in any kind of situation. the other wishes in there was something kind of like that " wish to world peace " , " wish to cure my friend's disease ", and interesting one was " wish to Yoko Ono will be the longevity ". also, I caught sight of wishes for earthquake disaster. and I think this is implicitly going to be the theme of back side of this naturally. so if you don't tried this project ever, please come join to describe your wishes at here. and when read some wishes of everyone, you will be bashful by it.

words & photo by Souichiro Ota

THE RUMOR OF ONE DAY

▷LITERATURE

dear my friend, I heard your rumor one day.

it mentioned you like this.

dear my friend, you are looks like Napoleon Bonaparte.

dear my friend, you are looks like a migratory bird which lead your fellows.

dear my friend, you are looks like wave headed to among rocks.

dear my friend, you are looks like sunrise which makes morning dew glinting.

but I see you like this.

dear my friend, you are looks like a boy who read a biography of the Napoleon.

dear my friend, you are looks like a boy who look up the migratory birds.

dear my friend, you are looks like a boy who play at the among rocks.

dear my friend, you are looks like a boy who gaze a sunrise while wet his pes with morning dew.

友よ、私はある日、君の噂を聞いた。

それはこう言っていた。

友よ、君はナポレオンのようだ

友よ、君は仲間を導く渡り鳥のようだ

友よ、君は岩間に向かう波のようだ

友よ、君は朝露を煌めかせる日の出のようだと。

だが私は君をこう映す。

友よ、君はナポレオンの伝記を読む少年のようだ

友よ、君は渡り鳥を見上げる少年のようだ

友よ、君は岩間で遊ぶ少年のようだ

友よ、君は朝露に足を濡らし日の出を見る少年のようだ。

words, photography : Souichiro Ota

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photograph, words by Souichiro Ota

THE INTERVIEW TO " ANNE-SOPHIE COCHEVELOU "

▷INTERVIEW

the london fashion week which was hold twice in year which is taken by five days that was normally held this february 2013 too. some various fields persons who concerned in fashion industry who gathered to it. one day in third days, I saw the one lady. the leather jacket which she worn was decorated a faces of dolls and the part of heel of heel boots she wore was made by lego blocks. some fashion snap photographers were taking her look, but what I thought to remarkable was her innocent facial expression which during taken a picts. I saw a pureness and sensitive which of essential for creator in such her facial expression. and after the photographers gone, I tried to chat with her. that was first time to met with her.

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Name : Anne-Sophie Cochevelou

Age : 23

Sex : female

Occupation : student MA Performance Practice & Design, Central saint martins,

Special Study : costume design and theatre making

▷ Why did you choose to make a doll and way to expression of your identity?

Because it's part of my childhood, it's part of me. it's unusual original, fascinating and creepy at the same time, it's a common reference that link people together.  You construct your own image and i like to be "the girl who wear barbie dolls", i like that people know me like that. 

▷ What is your favorite film?

i don't have a favourite film, too many different genre, lately i've seen again Rosemary baby by Polansky still find it amazing! 

▷ What is your favorite actor and actress?

no ideas, i love Anna Karina in old french movies 

▷ What is your favorite musician?

once again can't really say…right now i love the new single of daft punk, i can listen to really random music  on my bike, crazy warrior dubstep of hard core  k-pop. 

▷ What is your favorite book?

so many…right now a novel would be Belle du Seigneur, a poetry book  Coeur et Bien Robert Desnos.

▷ Who is your hero?

I need a hero

▷ What is your favorite color? and why?

bright colour, vivid, not a particular one, it's more how they match in a particular context, for example how a the blue of some shoes matches with the certain green of a dress. 

▷ What is your favorite way to spend a time in off-day?

dreaming, cycling, making jewels, reading, eating cakes, seeing friends. 

▷ What kind of child when you were childhood?

dreamy, living in my world, just 2 or 3 friends, looking younger than i was compared to the other children of my age, good at school and studious.  on my school report it was always "good results but should stop dreaming during lesson". 

▷ What is your definition about beauty?

something different, original, not necessary  harmonious or regular. As Baudelaire says "Le beau set toujours bizarre"  "beautiful is always bizarre" 

▷ Tell us what you’re planning in your near future and something you would try?

trying to develop my jewels and my creations, and hopefully keep links with the performance and theatre world. 

▷ Do you have some person who you got an influence in the way you achieved an expression of your self and who ?

a lot of people i guess, some friends, some teachers, my parents….

▷ What do you afraid if you are doll?

that the little girl that owe me throw me away for a prettier one.

▷ Please tell us the origin of the idea on the making a doll and pieces of your works?

It's coming from childhood, it's really fascinating material to use, possibilities of creation  are infinite, using them in creations allow you to tell stories and create "narrative jewels". 

▷ In this circumstance which everyone use kind of photoshop, illustrater, how do you think about  to use these tools in the way to make something? and are you using these tools?

i think it's great, augmented reality, creating another world, i would like to be able to use them ! 

▷ What is the attraction on making dolls for you?

it's reference to human being, it create a story, a narrative, strong image in the piece, because barbie is a common reference, a postmodern icon.

▷ There is so many difference type and material of the dolls in this world. why did you chose a barbie doll in your creation ?

Because i use to play with them in my childhood, part and parcel of my past, of  my identity.  quite easy to burn or to cut, the plastic it's quite soft,  you can't do that with porcelain dolls it's really more fragile. 

▷ Have you had something other way to create your works in the past? and what was that?

I always done creative things, when i was a child i was painting on rock, or drift wood, then performing in theatre, singing opera, i did a bit of everything. right now i'm directing my second show that going to be perform at Central saint martins in the end of may. 

▷ I strongly felt particular notion on creatures from your works. do you have something notions on creatures and on the way to use these themes ?

I like playing on the relationship between the  animated and the inanimate and this ambiguity, some of the dolls that i'm using on jacket are blinking their eyes as if there were alive, In Bergson's terms, it's "superimpose themechanical on the living".

▷ You are from france and french.  do you feel some special feelng by perspective as french?

I don't feel really  French for their the classicism and their minimalistic style. I feel more British in some ways , but people here always said to me that i look so french, that everything i'm doing is so french so maybe i'm unconsciously inspired by existentialist French philosophy in my attitude toward life… i just accept it as a self- fulfilingprophecy. 

▷ As the person who treat a creature on works, how do you think about relationship between death and living?

Object has their on life…the inert is telling something about the world of the living, celebrating it.

▷ I felt that cubism and dadaism on your works, especially on accessaries. do you have any definition of the style on your works?

baroque, weird, creepy, an heterogenous mismatch of everything i like, i've been inspired since now.

▷ Do you have care some material or tool to make new works in next works? 

i would like to work more with metal and precious material,  use new technics like laser, but you need a proper workshop for that! 

▷ Do you have someone who would like to colaborate with in your mind now?

in my dreams, the french designer Jean Charles de Castelbajac

▷ What is the power on the doing the creation for you?

Creation is everything, it's my way to feel alive, my reason of living, but it's hard because creative inspiration come and go, generally the more you do, the more ideas you have, so i think it's the other way round, you have to try out things and them other ideas come to you. Creation is more like a state of mind, special kind of energy. 

▷ How do you want to be eventually ?

I want to be  a crazy elegant old lady with a  huge pink house in Brittany with a lot of children running everywhere in the garden wearing indian weeding clothes. 

▷ How do you embody your identity into your pieces?

I think that identity (contrary to personality)  is something you construct through the eye of people. As the French philosopher Sartre says, gaze of the other could alienate you so you'd better control it  and can take advantage of it. Lego or barbie jewels are really significant and give a really strong message of how you want to be perceived to the others. Strangely it's by being the most particular that you become universal, by belonging to no-where you fit everywhere. 

the pureness I saw in her was vividly expressed into the her answer against question which of " what do you afraid if you are doll ? " . the love and fear against creation, and the conflict between it makes her strong as mother who create dolls called child. normally, her works has an impression which kind of pop and art by colorful pieces. but she said that the collaboration with me made a new dimension on her works which changed an impression from pop to dramatic and chic. but I personally think that her works already had had such an impression and potential inside of it. and not only that, I guess her works might expend to more new dimension in future and by creation with material and new theme and with generation. and it's affecting her aesthetics as french so well I think. I would expect to her next works and activity. 

by how to take, her works changes a facial expression. above pict I took was that I dare took like gothic. as peoples has various personality, the dolls also has it. and the person who can pour a soul to them is just only her.

this skirt which sewing a dolls hair to belt was what she made. and barbie on her head can be head piece by new perspective. 

every pieces in here and what she wear was made by her own. the skirt and head pieces and necklace and rings etc... anne-sophie cochevelou, what is there where the direction she's gazing. we can't predict it. but we surely can grab that her unique and sincerity traces and we certainly can gain some new interpretation of things. and one day, the dolls she made do the whirl wind around the world. 

Cycle in Heels

you can get more information about her at this above link which is her blog named " Cycle in Heels ".

check it and gaze it!

Recycled lives

and this page is what describe about project of this time!

words & photography : Souichiro Ota