yuichi ikehata's digitally distored hybrid humans are sculpted with wire + paper

The Japanese artist Yuichi Ikebata's series "LTM" combines the sense of decline of an unforgettable human and combines the future feeling that our body does not look like them. Ikebata's sculptural works combine digital and physical components delicately, creating a surreal portrait that is neither realistic nor imaginary.

The images that make up the "LTM fragment" begin with lines, paper, clay and carefully carved into the anatomical frame of a person's arms, legs and head. After physical implementation, ikehata digitally adds surreal photographic elements (skin, eyes, hair, nails, etc.) to the twisted metal cable network.

"Realistic and unrealistic world" said Mr. Yuichi Ikehata, "It is very close, so it can not be said that they are almost exactly one," he said. We use reality as key touch for unreality, sometimes with unrealistic key touch reality. The reality is beautiful, sad, interesting, and complete ... fragments cut from reality show a fictitious world. I collect, edit, organize, and capture pieces of my work. This is a pure myth. But this is my real world.

I am an artist born in Chiba prefecture. In a series called "long-term memory segment (LTM)", Ikehata uses wire, clay and paper to carve the body (or part of the body). Next, he shoots sculptures and digitally adds features such as skin, hair, eyes and so on. The final image is very seamless, so viewers can not distinguish between real and not. Each sculpture is in a loose or partially collapsed state and their skin peels off and reveals the underlying structure as if they were the real body caught at the end of the explosion . According to Mr. Ikebata, this collapsed image reflects the nature of memory that was forgotten or suppressed. "I take out those fragmented moments and rebuild them into a surreal image," he explained. "I collected these misguided memories from several parts of these reality and together they created a nonlinear story resonating with each other in my pictures."

The Japanese artist Yuichi Ikebata's series "LTM" combines the sense of decline of an unforgettable human and combines the future feeling that our body does not look like them. Ikehata 's sculpture works delicately combines digital and physical components, creating a portrait of a surrealist that is neither realistic nor imaginary. The images that make up the "LTM fragment" begin with lines, paper, clay and carefully carved into the anatomical frame of a person's arms, legs and head. After physical implementation, ikehata digitally adds surreal photographic elements (skin, eyes, hair, nails, etc.) to the twisted metal cable network.