"For over 50 years, I have practiced a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, mixed media, music, composition, multimedia performance, and digital media. I have come to recognize that my artistic practice is an abstract extension of place, the position of a point in space and time.
I continue to consider all my concerns and questions regarding the boundaries between art and science. I feel, even now, that I still discover the basis of creative power, the psychological motivations of creativity, and whether art develops in the same linear fashion as does science.
Based on these concerns and my speculations on them, I am passionate about what I call "editorial" art. Physical and conceptual experiences underlie any form of expression. Artistic activity is itself an experience. Depending on how well one can edit experiential data (learning), one chooses future artistic and other activities as developmentally enhancing values. Thus, structural design in editorial works is art. It is significant purposeful artistic achievement in action (rather than simply in the material).
Humans have three basic desires: to reproduce one's experience, to record or preserve it, and to communicate it to others. These three goals propel my life."
- Yuzo Nakano
March 2025