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M Kadota
 
 
About the Artist

My main motivation to create artwork is to find universal languages, searching for common truths that unite rather than separate. I feel that artwork, at its best, mirror society and our interior selves, raise questions, and presents communication and reflection. I try to make my messages human, poetic, inclusive, humorous, accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

I am mainly a conceptual artist who uses both traditional and non-traditional media to explore ideas. The various media I work in are video, painting, photography, installations, performance, movement, music, poetry, kinetic stage sets, sculpture, ceramics and film. I tend to work in series. I explore the concept through the series of work till I exhaust the idea. Usually I move to the next concept and at times return to former concepts with newfound ideas.

 
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Fragile

2002

Fragile
This video explores how fragile life is. The installation includes eggs and the video is of bird bones. It has a reference to 9/11

Footprints in the Sand

2002

Footprints in the Sand
This installation includes my feet cast and made into shoes. This represents our bodies that wear out after time. The video includes me walking across the screen leaving my footprints and then the ocean washes away my footprints. This explores our deeds that we do during our life time.

The Glass is Half Full, The Glass is Half Empty

2003

The Glass is Half Full, The Glass is Half Empty
The three glasses of salt water mirrors the tears of salt water falling from my eyes.

The Wish

2004

The Wish
The cast of my head has a wish bone on the fore head. The hands are projected from a projector mounted on the ceiling. All music is written by me.

Interior Landscapes

2008
Mixed media, ash, sand, dirt metal leaf, acrylics and oil paints on canvas
20” x 20” each panel

I have always felt that the arts express various ways to communicate. Our words or language seem to be the most common forms of communication. Often it is the way we put together words, to form ideas, beliefs, expressions and descriptions, which make our thoughts understood. I often feel this form of communication is not adequate. With this said, of course there are the poets that paint with words and perhaps take us to new levels of communication. Words, sentences, paragraphs and books inspired these paintings. Like words of a sentence, the panels don’t form an idea until they are put together. They are meant to be read as a group or a paragraph. Like poetry they can be a vague idea and allow the audience to interpret their own ideas into the pieces. These new artworks contain ashes from burned prayers. In my studio I have a burning bowl. My usual ritual is to write a prayer or thought and light it on fire from a burning candle and let it burn out in a ceramic bowl that I made for this purpose. The ashes from these burnt prayers are mixed into the paints to create these paintings creating a visual dialogue.

Conversation is Various Languages

2008
Mixed media, ash, sand, dirt metal leaf, acrylics and oil paints on canvas
10" x 10" each panel

I have always felt that the arts express various ways to communicate. Our words or language seem to be the most common forms of communication. Often it is the way we put together words, to form ideas, beliefs, expressions and descriptions, which make our thoughts understood. I often feel this form of communication is not adequate. With this said, of course there are the poets that paint with words and perhaps take us to new levels of communication. Words, sentences, paragraphs and books inspired these paintings. Like words of a sentence, the panels don’t form an idea until they are put together. They are meant to be read as a group or a paragraph. Like poetry they can be a vague idea and allow the audience to interpret their own ideas into the pieces. These new artworks contain ashes from burned prayers. In my studio I have a burning bowl. My usual ritual is to write a prayer or thought and light it on fire from a burning candle and let it burn out in a ceramic bowl that I made for this purpose. The ashes from these burnt prayers are mixed into the paints to create these paintings creating a visual dialogue.

The Rhythm of Your Words

2008
Mixed media, ash, sand, dirt metal leaf, acrylics and oil paints on canvas
16” x 16” each panel

Part of the Visual Dialogue Series
 
Education and biography
Self taught
 
Future shows
Today Art Museum in Beijing, China 2008

One man exhibit 2009
Museum het van land Thorn
Thorn, Netherlands
 
Website:  www.markkadota.com
 
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