Sixpack: Could you tell us a bit about your creative process ? One can think about airbrush or even computer graphics when looking at your art, although it is mainly executed with pencils, tiny brushes and acrylic paint.
Sorayama: I express myself with Sufmato on a flat surface so as ordinary people can smoothly understand.I compensate the lack of sense that our age is taking by an intensive use of my body and time. I always think while painting that it would be nice if I could be more able to express impossible light and reflection, temperature, softness, etc with paint. It is also a kind of Fantasy. You can easily do that with digital animation, but I am obstinately using that outdated techniques of analog expressions that restrain me!
Sixpack: Sixpack’s new collection “Past, Present, Future” explores the links between artists through history, each generation influencing the next one. Do you see such a kind of connection in your work ?
Sorayama: I think that the artist, taken in the vortex of a cultural stream, cannot realize the existence of a “Mème”. The next generation and the critics will decide that by filtering. I struggle every day in order to stay in the memory of people. If that happens, I would be really happy.
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