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The images of war are frequently represented in many different media in any culture. While we receive these images of war, we unconsciously build images—certain poses and compositions—that remind us of war in our minds. The images are not from our real experience of war but from the images from mass media. I am examining the universal allegorical images and compositions that imply war and reproducing them as a parody of fictional war.
Born in Japan in 1980, I haven’t experienced any war in my country. However, I hear about current and past wars all the time through media sources such as newspapers, TV stations, magazines, movies, and books. Even though I have never experienced the situation of war, after receiving many images and narratives about war, I have begun to feel trauma and fear when I see certain images that remind me of war. The question I have always had is whether I shouldn’t talk about the pain of war because I haven‘t experienced real war yet. However, it is also true that there is the pain in me from those images of war that I see. I am pursuing the power of fiction and the narratives of war in this project.
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