Taiga Kobayashi Visual Works

2008-2018

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Wooden portrait of Father. 2019.

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Color Pencil. 2009.

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A portrait of Mizuki

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"A portion of the providence"

Gathering at the grand wooden table,

before long someone and someone

pledged to marry and are being celebrated.

Perceiving that the grand table

was once a very large tree,

a baby begins crying.

Counting the growth rings.

It had stood nearly forever,

all alone in a prairie.

The innocent earth that made that prairie

is yet shining blue.

On the earth that wears no makeup,

before long someone and someone who pledged to marry

wear makeup and are being celebrated.

The universe

sees them without a word.

Zine “A Portion of The Providence”

2018. Poem/Mizuki Misumi,Visual work/Taiga Kobayashi

Drift wood. Clay.

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Imaginal poster series. 

2012. Photoshop. Illustrator.

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From digital photo montage series IMAGEO.

2012. Photoshop

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A poster work for jazz event “Sapporo Vocalists Project in Autumn”. With handmade LP record headdress.

The wall in back is a bronze work of a metal craft creator Kyoko Yoshida.

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A digital photo montage from a project IMAGEO. It was made through trip in west cost, U.S.

2012. Photoshop. Bicycle.

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2009-2015. Cray. Paper. Waste.Woods. 

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New year card series.

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A mural “Mi Familia”

This was as a portrait of my “hippy” family and also as a message board from their friends. For it was on the window, sunlight appears from centre space and makes its surface bright.

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Designed shirt for the exhibition “Mi Familia”.

I turned my parent’s life episodes into like LP records and its leaflet. Voodoo Child, Afro blue, Flamenco Sketch, all those greatest numbers on play list were represented their life episodes. The title “Biography is Discography” was named for dedicating my hippy parent.

Printed by THIRD EYE PRINTING.

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Flyer for the exhibition “Mi Familia” which was for parent pasted away. 

I called this event “Kind of modern funeral”.

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Self designed shirts “The Grateful Head” was made for the exhibition “Mi Familia”.

Featured Zanza which is a custom of tribes in South America that they make neckless from dried head when their leader daed. This was put my parent’s head with all my grateful. Signed SPIRITUS and PSYCHE on their hear.

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Like a Monroe in underground style.

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Featuring 70′s underground style in 2008. Like a drag queen.