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Masami Teraoka, Longing Samurai, 1993
“In Longing Samurai, the punk-haired boy could easily have been me at the age of twenty-five when I arrived in America. Everything was fascinating and exciting, but I became frustrated at not being able to understand what people were saying. It is not easy for this punk-boy to become friends with the American woman in front of him. It seems he might be having a sexual fantasy but the reality is definitely beyond his grasp.” – MASAMI Teraoka
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Matthew Bower: “I have a problem with the term ‘psychedelia’and its negative associations of a ‘hippie’ falseness. Nevertheless, my arte is, I know, deeply psychedelic in a true sense, a kind of synaesthesisia, a scrambling, an overload that seeks Samadhi in its primal gush, that will reconnect one with the all, or rather, a ‘black psychedelia,’ substituting the elective current, for ‘all’….”
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