ART ＆ ALTERNATIVE

Have you ever wondered what a mural is?
It's a painting on a wall, you might immediately answer.
From my perspective, even if it's not painted by human hands, the wall itself can be considered mural.
This is because the image seen on the wall can be considered mural, created by natural phenomena.
The surface of the wall, peeled or stained by natural phenomena, is itself a work of art created by natural phenomena.
Humans are not the only ones who create works of art.
Here, I use "mural" to mean "wall," not "wall painting."
Sometimes, sculptures are carved into rock walls.
If a Buddha statue is carved into a wall, it appears to be floating above the rock.
This is also mural.
Even if a Buddha-like figure is formed by the forces of nature, wind and rain, even without human carving, it is also mural.
Here, I attempt to create the appearance of the wall's surface through identity auto-drawing.
Rather than drawing a painting to be painted on a wall, I am trying to create the expression of the wall itself.
That's why I would like you to think of the work I have imagined as a digitized wall.
It's not a painting painted on the wall, but the wall itself. Not wallpaper, but a wall.
Why are we so particular about walls?
While walls have some unevenness, they are generally flat (two-dimensional).
That's why when you look at a wall within a square frame, it looks like a painting.
Rock walls in particular appear to be exquisite works of art.
Rock walls are works of art created by natural weathering, and they took a long time to get to that point.
The same can be said for rock mountains.
The shapes of rock mountains are beautiful and imbued with artistic quality.
That's why mountains have a divine quality, and people are drawn to them and try to climb them.
Compared to the beauty of mountains, works created by humans cannot be compared.
The difference between rock walls and pillars formed by natural phenomena and man-made objects is clear.
For this reason, when a monolith is placed in a natural setting, its presence stands out.
Man-made objects created by human hands look different from objects in nature.
However, I am not trying to create an artificial wall.
Rather, I am trying to create a wall that looks like a natural object untouched by human hands.
If works created by human hands are called art, then perhaps the works I want to create are not art.
For this reason, I have decided to call the works I am trying to create alternative art.
I believe this is possible if I portray my works not as human beings, but as natural phenomena.
The only way to achieve this is to become a natural phenomenon myself.
I set aside all my own will and let the power of nature move my hands to create my works.
The Mural edition features a collection of works created automatically in this way.
Why is a line drawn between the natural world and the human world?
Perhaps it is because humans are not beings created by the natural world.
When we think about it this way, our previous concept of art is overturned.
If a huge, square-shaped monolith were erected in the middle of the desert, it would appear to the eye as Mural.
It is immediately clear that it is not a natural object.
Natural objects and man-made objects are clearly separated, like oil and water, because they do not mix.
In this way, a perfect boundary exists between the natural world and the human world.
In other words, a line is drawn between the two.
What does this fact tell us?
Humans cannot become nature, and nature cannot become humans.
The global environment can be divided into two phases.
One is the natural phase, and the other is the human phase.
This is immediately apparent when viewing the Earth from a satellite.
Countless man-made objects are spread across the Earth.
Areas where humans live (urban areas) and natural forests appear to the eye as incompatible.
Man-made objects created on Earth appear to be of Earth when observed from extraterrestrial space.
Artificial objects (monoliths) and natural objects are clearly different, and we can glimpse the differences in their creators.
This is why the difference between natural objects and artificial objects is crucial.
Whereas natural objects are created by natural phenomena, artificial objects are created by human consciousness.
Therefore, the difference between natural objects and artificial objects speaks to the fundamental difference between natural phenomena (natural laws) and human consciousness.
We know that human consciousness exists on a different level from natural phenomena,
but it is also true that the human body belongs to the natural phenomenal world.
Our bodies exist solely as natural phenomena.
The body is something created by the natural world, not artificial.
Therefore, humans exist as straddling two spaces.
One is the space of consciousness, and the other is the space of phenomena.
Alternative art exists in the space of phenomena, and the subject that creates it resides in the space of consciousness.