What lets me live for / だから私は生きている Installation

A study says we humans in fact are not endowed with free will. The research by Dr. Benjamin Libet, an American physiologist, has revealed that our brains get ready to act approximately 0.5~1 second before we get aware of the action. This means you “are acting” before you think of “acting” it. If we really do not possess any free will, does that mean our living and dying is being decided by something that is beyond our wills? Still, we seem to be capable of choosing our death. Is even such a chosen death in fact not chosen by our discretion? We are capable of selecting living and its way. Is even such a selected life in fact not selected by our discreation? The creative mission of Ouma, as a cell artist who was veterinarian, lies in to “artistic quest of alternative healing” with her art ingredient focused on “cell”, the biologically-defined minimum unit of life. We humans have innate capacity to heal ourselves by “believing”. Simply being convinced of mere flour as an effective medicine could bring about a dramatic cure (so-called placebo effect). Occasionally mere cutting of a skin (placebo surgery) fully cures a serious injury. These facts lead us to ask, “What are the safe and effective treatment?” in the true sense of the word. And “Why cannot we activate our natural healing abilities by our own free will?” Even if we had no “free will”, could not we get convinced that everything in life is made out of our own choice or that we are selecting the ways we live? Could we deceive our own brains by ourselves? The patterns we describe on paper are automatically made without their blueprints as if we had no free will. A work of “cellular” art which comprehends the gallery as a monolithic “cell”. You must feel with your entire body the consolidated pressure radiated from the work. And you can bring it back home with you any favorite portion of your favorite: White portion, red portion, exquisitely patterned portion, or even a blank portion. What lets you choose the portion as your part?: Is it your free will?; Or something else’s? The “portion” , cut off of your choice in your heart-size, will ask you “what is your free will?”

Installation:Paint on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:112.2 W x 100 H x 118.1 D in

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