村上隆のインスタグラム(takashipom) - 8月13日 06時17分

part2 ,and while at it, do a series with her in traditional Japanese clothing a la Araki photographs to appeal to the overseas audience. He subsequently went for a location shoot with his wife at some traditional Japanese inn, projected the photos on canvas, and made spray painted works.

I, on my part, thought these might constitute a groundbreaking invention in the long history of Japanese graffiti that had always borrowed from overseas. They were no longer graffitis, yet of course they weren't anything academic, either. You couldn’t make heads or tails of them, yet what was painted was purely good; the works sold.
What an amazing invention this was! Let me say that the idea came from me. Me = Takashi Murakami. Hahaha.
But of course at the base of these works were MADSAKI’s personal past, for example of being bullied in New Jersey during his elementary school years and of being a “returnee” (someone who spends part of their upbringing abroad before returning to Japan and entering the Japanese school system) in Japan, or his feelings behind the photos he uploaded on Instagram. So in a sense I am to him as an editor is to a manga artist.
As we went on, I started to get carried away by this collaboration with MADSAKI and asked him to paint my flower characters in his style. I then photographed it, scanned it, adjusted the compositions and forms in the data, and released it as my work. This has also been a hit. (I’m paying royalty to MADASKI by the way! It’s not an exploitation, mind you!) Subsequently for my solo show in Chicago, I made a strange new sculpture the likes of which I had never made before, and asked MADSAKI to cover it with his graffiti to commemorate his time in the United States, Chicago being one of the major graffiti meccas. He in turn brought on snipe1, his long-time friend, who apparently can no longer enter the United States because he had illegally overstayed in the country multiple times for various reasons. The resulting piece, painted by these two artists, was also definitely a surefire for me. It was an imitation of the ‘90s American graffiti, ←to be continued

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