Rumi Fukumoto

 

I explore based on "time", "memory" and "reconstructing memory". I still have the same questions that children have. As a child I was afraid to fall asleep. According to what my mother told me, one night at the age of 6, when she came to check on me, I was crying quietly. She surprised and asked why, I replied that I did not know where I came from or where I was going. This question later led to and shaped my work “ieji -the way home-”. 

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A short while later, I was thinking about we were in time but could not perceive it, and everything felt ephemeral. One Sunday afternoon I watched my mother on the balcony from the dimly lit room. She was hanging the laundry out to dry. The day was warm and sunny, and I felt safe and happy. Then the next moment came a great sorrow. Where do people's memories come from, and are they really only their own? Existence as if it were fixed at one point, but isn't it in fact uncertain and fluctuating? Such questions led to the KIRIMUKAURI series and the sf project. The medium of expression may change, but the theme remains the same.