“In fact, I don’t have this so-called awareness of “concealing the face” of my figures. It is more of a sense of destroying status and identity in order to create a face that has never been seen before . . . It’s easy to portray emotion through facial expressions and I often think, for instance, of how a mystical, elusive, and enigmatic face can make people feel uneasy, or how it could even verge on becoming comical if pursued to its extreme.”
—Tomoo Gokita