T-shirts as my central media are to relate my artwork with casualness, yet my motivation for visual expression still comes from a traditional style of making art. This action embodies my intention to cut off the lordliness of high art, which tends to keep people who are inexperienced in the art world away from this T-shirts. I utilize this openness to proclaim my philosophy the art should be an a
vailable medium for anybody’s self-expression or self-betterment. Bridging the distance between high art and popular art in this way also implicates art with the contemporary fashion industry. The mechanical process of mass-production involved in this industry tends to emphasize business profit and trends that sidestep originality and craftsmanship. Therefore, my goal for this works is to reveal the value system hidden in the consumption culture by using the surface of each T-shirt as a mirror.
~ designer Hisami Taniguchi ~
