ABOUT MY FISHTANK SERIES
About My Fishtank Series...
Compositions, interior arrangements, reflections, communications, and lights…, to me a fish tank is a space and a container which is similar but a smaller scale of a window and a room. In a fish tank, I am experimenting with different conditions and balancing of both natural and man-made, interrelationship, phenomena, balance, changes and reactions of the environment, and the organisms as independent and as integrated. And what makes me interested the most is that regardless of whether we see or not see humans, there are humans in a fish tank condition. One day I started to see a fishtank being a room with four windows and no curtain for privacy. We place a fishtank in the best lighting position for the fish and it(a fishtank) usually has the best living conditions in the room if owned by a loving caring owner. The fishes will be fed everyday, and there is no predator in their world. But still, it will never have privacy for 7/24. When I started to see this way I started to think about what life is really like for them.
I have always loved the idea of a container since when I was very small. A window, a bathtub, a purse, a mug cup, a swimming pool, and a fishtank... they were all to me containers that were exciting, somewhat mysterious, and magical and endless possibilities to contain something. Fishtank was one of them and one of the most interesting one because it has water and lives in it. I started to learn swimming when I was 2 years old also and my first dream as a child was to marry a dolphin I saw on TV. So to me, the fishtank was like a diorama of my desired place where I wanted to live when I grew up.
Growing up I had multiple experiences with fishtanks. It wasn't always goldfishes but sometimes I had baby flogs in it, or I had snails that ate cucumbers, sometimes it was Medaka (Japanese Killfish), Guppies, water plants and other small lives including shrimps and river snails. But I was always fascinated the idea of goldfish in fishtank. I liked that Japanese people invented the Goldfish-tank. Also after growing up I started to learn the history of goldfish starting as just one of random fishes, and being found, how it traveled, evolved, and has become today's goldfishes beloved around the world. To me it showed the best way the countries related to each other with cultural trading, and also showed the best way of how Japanese people were related to make something better and give it a whole new life and send it out. I'm seeing an answer to Japan's great possibility that we have had, a unique position that Japanese people today can take and polish in the international relationship which is not just following other advanced nations or trends. To honor it I have adopted Goldfish as my artist name hoping my visual art will have positive effects on people around the world.
My fishtank recent diptych series explore the intriguing relationship between cats and goldfish, delving into the mystery and delicate balance of their interactions. Each piece evokes a sense of calm and curiosity, capturing the serene beauty of the fish in its enclosed space while subtly suggesting an underlying tension. Through this juxtaposition, Natsumi invites viewers to reflect on the fragile coexistence between tranquil observation and the instinctual presence of danger. A Fishtank always has people behind it, no matter if we see them or not.
I have always loved the idea of a container since when I was very small. A window, a bathtub, a purse, a mug cup, a swimming pool, and a fishtank... they were all to me containers that were exciting, somewhat mysterious, and magical and endless possibilities to contain something. Fishtank was one of them and one of the most interesting one because it has water and lives in it. I started to learn swimming when I was 2 years old also and my first dream as a child was to marry a dolphin I saw on TV. So to me, the fishtank was like a diorama of my desired place where I wanted to live when I grew up.
Growing up I had multiple experiences with fishtanks. It wasn't always goldfishes but sometimes I had baby flogs in it, or I had snails that ate cucumbers, sometimes it was Medaka (Japanese Killfish), Guppies, water plants and other small lives including shrimps and river snails. But I was always fascinated the idea of goldfish in fishtank. I liked that Japanese people invented the Goldfish-tank. Also after growing up I started to learn the history of goldfish starting as just one of random fishes, and being found, how it traveled, evolved, and has become today's goldfishes beloved around the world. To me it showed the best way the countries related to each other with cultural trading, and also showed the best way of how Japanese people were related to make something better and give it a whole new life and send it out. I'm seeing an answer to Japan's great possibility that we have had, a unique position that Japanese people today can take and polish in the international relationship which is not just following other advanced nations or trends. To honor it I have adopted Goldfish as my artist name hoping my visual art will have positive effects on people around the world.
My fishtank recent diptych series explore the intriguing relationship between cats and goldfish, delving into the mystery and delicate balance of their interactions. Each piece evokes a sense of calm and curiosity, capturing the serene beauty of the fish in its enclosed space while subtly suggesting an underlying tension. Through this juxtaposition, Natsumi invites viewers to reflect on the fragile coexistence between tranquil observation and the instinctual presence of danger. A Fishtank always has people behind it, no matter if we see them or not.
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