Images of Eyes, Art work, Paintings of Faces from Japan

Images of Eyes Gallery--fine
art by international artists

Images of Eyes Gallery I
Collage Artwork by Takahiro Kimura
Japan

Takahiro Kimura was born in Tokyo on July 4, 1965. The quoted comments below by Kimura are from his website in April 2001:

"What do I like about collage? Accidental encounter and happening. When we have established some kind of our own style, it is very difficult to be perfectly innocent when you sit in front of a piece of paper. We, without knowing it, try to plan something or try to harmonize our artworks. We tend to use the familiar lines, familiar colors, and familiar shapes. Sometimes, we can tell what the finished work will be like even in the middle of working.

"Collage destroys that sort of our superficial originality. We get excited to encounter new materials and there is no guessing where we are now and where we are going. For example, we sometimes decide to adapt the once-discarded eyes and lips at the last minute, and we sometimes accidentally cut the prepared material when cutting a piece of paper. Oh, my God! What did I do! Well, this is some sort of necessary coincidence. This is the destiny. With these over-reacting and various emotional processes, we keep on working with the materials. Once we foresee the coming result, we lose our interest in the works. Therefore, to keep our tension high, we need some accidents and happenings during the working process. . .

"[In my project "Broken 1000 Faces'] I will tear the photos of faces into pieces, and then put them together and make 1000 collages on size A4 papers. It is a challenging project. I introduce the torn faces every week on my website, and conduct a popularity vote. Championship of Broken Faces! I also ask voters to give some comments. The comments are often very severe and sharp, and, out of many similar faces, some particular faces will be turned down by surely aesthetic eyes. The voters are much more sensitive to, and severe with, beauty than I am, and there are a lot of things I learn from them. I would pull myself, realizing again that I cannot cheat the viewers. I will put pressure on myself and always try to improve my art."

Untitled collage image by
Takahiro Kimura of Japan