"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"It’s just like sculpture. I feel like I’m carving this out of conceptual form. The figures were made without artistic motivation, and I’m trying to make them art-like. So that’s photography! People tend to believe that photography can just record scenes, but this is more like using my camera and then projecting my own imagination onto the surface of this ‘sculpture’- these models. So I think I feel more like I’m shaping the forms using a camera instead of chisel. It’s sculptural form using my camera as a tool. And between chisel and camera, there’s no difference to me."
- Hiroshi Sugimoto