"Self-portrait" is the work made to the
Matsui Fuyuko's school days. She did the sketch quite carefully, and she
drew this self-portrait, having applied time and effort. This is
immediately understood, if it sees. This self-portrait was exhibited at
this exhibition just before the ability "Becoming Friends with All the
Children in the World". So, I was not able to see this self-portrait as an
independently independent work. It was made to see, considering relation
that I can make friends with the child in the Matsui Fuyuko's "Becoming
Friends with All the Children in the World".
That I looked at and
felt "Self-portrait" was the production associated with pity which gets
damaged the same with it being in the ability "Becoming Friends with All
the Children in the World". In exhibition, "Underdrawing for
Self-portrait" was located in a line with "Self-portrait", and it was
exhibited. In respect of the production which damages oneself, she was
doing various operations with the work compared with the sketch. For
example, it is a background. And she applied the portion of the hair of
the hair of "Self-portrait" to the whole surface white, and as the hood
was covered completely, she showed. What I paid my attention to here is
not the portion she modified "Underdrawing for Self-portrait" and a
certain operation carried out but the portion which did not add a hand.
The portion which she did not modify is a face. She is making
"Self-portrait", without adding a hand taking advantage of a polite sketch
about the face which may be called beauty. In fact, also in other works,
she has carried out no processing and operation to the face. On the other
hand, she is chopping up each portion of the bodies, such as a hand, a
leg, and the body, in other works. The starting point of such her body
expression is on this"Self-portrait". I in particular do not consider that
this will conduct psychological pattern analysis. She has not added
processing to a face in the work. This shows that her identity does not
make it steadfast and has not necessarily collapsed. That is, although she
damages the body in a work, it is not having damaged oneself out of
necessity and having carried out intentionally and strategically as
production. She wrapped herself in various clothes, exposed to media, made
up herself, and became a model of the photograph. Such her act does not
modify a face in a self-portrait, but is related to changing the color of
the hair. It is expression of the intention that both pretend the external
surface. Thus, she shows the essential intention of being external and
decorative, in "Self-portrait" or her act.
