beauty call

Questa is an artist based in Tokyo who conducts live performance paintings using fluorescent paint under blacklight.  Excerpts from an interview with Questa earlier this year…

Q: Is there a reason you prefer fluorescent paints?

Energy is closely related to light, specifically the light that comes from the sun. I want people to get their feelings and inspiration from that kind of light, born from that same energy. Fluorescent paint under the blacklight is the translation of that radiant energy.

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Q: Why do you choose to do only live paintings?

“I think people relate to them.  Thinking on the spot, in reality, I remove the image from my head and the audience can see it as I create.  It’s also a unique way to change the flow of time by drawing in public consciousness.  It’s a kind of entertainment.  The DJ’s song selection creates an atmosphere – I want to create an atmosphere with the people who come together for the occasion.  It gives the work a good energy.”

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Q: Why the flower motif?

One day, I was watching a flower bloom on the street and all of a sudden I felt that our world was so alive and that I wasn’t so tragic.  Though we are completely separate from the flower, we can relate to that delicacy.  There is such a life force in flowers and I want to express that in painting.

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