Akira Shimizu - Blacklight
In the summer of 1962, he was captivated by "Black light" which appeared in the industrial scene at that time. Living in the upstairs of a subcontract factory of an electronic company, where he worked right after the graduation of college, he made Motorcycle's Black light, which is thought to be one of forerunners of gPsychedelic Arth.
Phosphorescence paints were scattered on the motorcycle, and when the black light (ultraviolet rays) was irradiated, the motorcycle emitted richly-colored light, and was transfigured. He exhibited Black light installation from 1962 to 1966 consecutively. In most of the Black light attempts in those days, phosphorescence paints were scattered on "wastes". Then fluorescent light, which does not make them emit, and the black light were irradiated alternately with the timer.
In this work, he does not see wastes as waste, attempts to make them totally different things - shiny spectacle.
He sees fluorescent light as consciousness of awaking and the black light as "another state of consciousness" that works to our sleep. Wastes are wastes when they are seen in our consciousness, but seen in sub-consciousness they are transformed to scenery like richly-colored Ocean.
