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“Since the late 1990s, my works has involved in creation of conceptually based sociopolitical portraitures. In 2006 I began utilizing vinyl and images of quintessential American family and popular culture items to address issues on gender roles, the fragility of family dynamics, underlying threads of violence and danger that underpin American society. As a part of ongoing projects, I collect images of people who are engaging online video chat, such as AIM and Skype. I was interested in intimate quality of images of people who are engaging online video chat. I aim to expand on the issue of interpersonal communication in modern days and research how old communication method is being replaced by new technology and how human psyche is affected by the change. It is also my intention to capture what’s been lost in lost in translation in age of digital communication.”

-Hiroshi Kumagai