into the void

“The void is important,” said Kawakubo in 2000, and this is a concept her work often returns to – that of nothingness. As noted by Bolton, Kawakubo’s work is similar to a zen koan, the riddle used by Zen masters to evaluate their students progress towards enlightenment. A noted zen koan is mu, or the void, which can be interpreted as “negation, emptiness and nothingness,” according to Bolton. Kawakubo returns to this concept repeatedly in her work. Accepting an award in 2000, she explained, “I like to work with space and emptiness.”
 “ALL THESE THINGS AND NONE OF THEM. I WORK IN THE VOID, IN THE ABSTRACT AND YET I IMAGINE THE TOTAL EXISTENCE OF THE END PRODUCT. CDG IS FOUNDED ON A DESIGN PHILOSOPHY. THE REST IS SEMANTICS.I THINK CONTEMPORARY CULTURE DOES NOT ALLOW ENOUGH SPACE FOR NUANCE, WE ARE NOT REALLY IN AN AGE OF NUANCE.”“THERE IS NO SECRET AND NO CODE. I LIKE TO CREATE A SPACE WHERE THE VIEWER CAN FEEL A SENSE OF DISCOVERY. I TRY TO CREATE STRONG BEAUTIFUL SPACES IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN HAVE THEIR SPIRITS LIFTED AND CAN FEEL ENERGY.”

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