Yukinori Yanagi

1. What is your fascination between humans and animals? Which do you pity more?
2. What gave you the idea to make an ant farm to demonstrate different countires powers?
3. How long have you been an artist?

An ant? Of all creatures. It really is fascinating learning about what modern artists are creating these days. I like how they talked about the artist being the only one that gets fatigued during the process and not the ant, who was the one who was kidnapped. Honestly, why would he ever choose an ant to incoporate into his work? But regardless, the pieces are astonishing and shows just how much effort and energy he puts into his work. I would love to see the finished piece of the Wandering Postion. I also wonder if he accumulated any back problems after doing the piece. Being hunched over for that many days can give any one a problem.

Another piece was the ant farm and this is one that will change and develop over time which I think is amazing. I would love to see this piece periodically and document it's changes, which Im sure the artist is doing. It's interesting how he choose flags and what more, why did he choose the countries he did. I think he's trying to symoblize how whether we choose to believe it or not, all countries are connected whether physically, socially or econically. We are all on the same planet so should all get along. But that will never happen.

I think that he chooses to pity humans more, we are worn down more easily because of our negatively ever growing society and are becoming more and more antisocial and lazy. Animals are strong and persistant and dont have their priorities blocked by other issues, they work as a team. I think he just likes the differences and similarities between humans and animals and likes to compare the two's lifestyle. I cant answer the other two questions.

1. Why did you choose an ant to incorporate into your work?
2. How many days did you follow the path of the ant?
3. What do you find most interesting about the ant?