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Artist's commentary
My mom is not mom
"It's a secret, miss, the strange thing that is inside mom. So, it's mom's skin. My mom is not mom. I don't understand. Maybe she's not a human being. When Hitomi isn't watching she goes back to how she was before. When Hitomi is in kindergarten she goes back to that, and when she comes to pick Hitomi up, when she is at home as mom, she is totally mom. But when she's in the bath or in the toilet, when she hasn't seen Hitomi even for a little while, she can breathe a little and she becomes this figure. When she sleeps in bed with me, even though we are together that is her waiting for me to go to sleep. When Hitomi falls asleep she can take off this skin and go back to her core. Hitomi knows this. My mom is not mom."