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Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | A Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1) Gallery
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Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | A Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1) Gallery

<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> The "Divine of Creation" series delves into the allure of creators themselves. Our 15th guest is artist Yasuhiro Suzuki, whose "Ship of the Zipper" captivated audiences at the Setouchi Triennale 2010.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> Flip-book animation, which Suzuki describes as the "origin" of his work. He recreated these animations, originally drawn on notepads during his university years, for an exhibition last year.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "I feel like I've turned everything I was interested in into flip-book animations. At first, I would flip through them myself, so I think I'm probably in the top 10 in Japan for flipping flip-book animations (laughs)," says Suzuki.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "I seriously got into making flip-book animations in college. At the time, I didn't have any other means of output. I drew about a hundred in total," says Suzuki.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "With flip-book animations, I think about ideas while flipping through each page. I draw, flip, then draw the next idea that comes to mind... repeating this process creates unexpected connections between motifs. I became addicted to that world," says Suzuki.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "People in the past, living in times when there was nothing, created many things from their daily lives. They lived with a sense of gratitude for everything. I feel that all of that is contained within Suzuki's simple works," says Ito.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "Perhaps I have a desire to desperately hold onto what I had within me as a child. When I want to convey something I find interesting to others in an understandable way, the important things within me naturally emerge," says Suzuki.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> His first art book, "Mabataki to Habataki" (Seigensha), published in November 2011.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "Ship of the Zipper" (2010), exhibited at the Setouchi Triennale 2010.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "Ship of the Zipper" (2010) is a grand project featuring a giant ship shaped like a zipper, carving its way across the open sea.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> To meet the organizer's condition of "people can ride on it," they completed a colossal zipper-shaped ship, 11.37 meters long and weighing 5.3 tons.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "My antenna for receiving inspiration, what you might call a 'sixth sense,' is also incredibly strong from birth. And I have the ability to translate that received inspiration into the tangible forms of various things in this world," says Ito.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "When we are children, we don't have much knowledge or distracting thoughts, so when our hearts leap at something our eyes land on, we innocently express a desire to do that too. All the hints are there, and people try to fulfill them every day," says Ito.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "I receive many opportunities, and it's certainly enjoyable, but I also feel an equal amount of anxiety. The fear that what I conceive might not be realized. I'm always a little afraid. That's why I can keep going," says Suzuki. (Photo: "Ship of the Zipper" (2010), exhibited at the Setouchi Triennale 2010)
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "University became like a device that intensely reminded me of my childhood, and my pure feelings and passion from that time accelerated dramatically," says Suzuki.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "To convey that all the approximately 7 billion people in the world, as well as the plants and animals in nature, are all one. That is the task given to Suzuki," says Ito.
<strong>Reika Ito x Yasuhiro Suzuki | Spiritual Dialogue (Part 1)</strong> "His ability to translate his unique worldview into a visible form is extraordinarily remarkable," says Ito. "When it becomes a tangible object, it's immediately understood by people," says Suzuki. "Exactly. That's why I believe creators and artists are representatives of us humans, messengers from the universe. They live to convey important things on Earth," says Ito.
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