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Origination2 (1998-)

Letters, receipts, and banknotes I received made up this series.
They were written, recorded and signed by others and sent or issued to me. In the letters I was judged, described, analyzed and labelled, acquiring various codes from others.

As a kind of printing artworks, I opened this printed matter to the public. They are official printed matter that I have received so far. They are responses from a credit card company and some organizations supporting artists. They informed me regarding my applications; they wrote that I was not chosen to be an owner of a credit card (they refused to issue their credit card to me), or I was not chosen as an artist to be given a grant.

Their refusals became my printing artworks.
My action for the artworks had started since my request had been sent to others.
When I clash with others, they decode 'me' for not taking their code or values.
It means that when I offered 'me' in order to be decoded, I was encoded by them.
My conflict and their decoding happened together, synchronistically.

To conflict and to decode and encode are the same meaning.
They approach, face, meet and stay in one place.
They become 'me'.