𠮷田桃子

"I imagine a world like a parallel universe to reality, depicting scenes where my own nostalgia and curiosity Miraie intersect."

Appearing in response to the disappearance of the self are images of young people in an alternate world, onto which their own aspirations, desires, and fetishes are projected.
The characters, depicted as symbols of the unknown encompassing the future, are sometimes portrayed as fluid beings liberated from specific Identity, blurring the boundaries of nationality, gender, real and virtual, and 2D and 3D.
I am interested in idealized memories of the past and multidimensional worldviews, and I explore through painting the attempt to reinterpret my own life as a new fiction, and the nested, deepening structure of stories.

In the production process, we first create three-dimensional models of the characters and backgrounds based on the image, capture them in a video, and then use a single frame extracted from that video as a preliminary sketch.
I see this multi-stage transformation process as an effective way to consciously distance oneself from the real world and explore oneself in the depths of a fantasy world.
While drawing inspiration from various aspects of youth culture such as music, fashion, games, and internet culture, we also aim to evoke connections to the expansion of spirituality and Identity in the information society.

As social media and the metaverse liberate people from the constraints of reality and expand the possibilities for free self-expression, our existence is becoming increasingly complex.
Against this historical backdrop, I view my own work as a "portrait of the modern age," presenting a new kind of reality.

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