Under this meteor shower of  knowledge, true or false, Tamaki Kawaguchi paints insects, dressed to enter a post apocalyptic world were the universe is observed from memory. The Japanese respect insects in a high regard, a tenacity for their abilities of survival is revered as much as an exquisite form. Sometimes kept as pets, insectariums are popular attractions such as: the Mino Park Museum in Osaka or Tamura's Mushi Mushi Land.

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The Artist is filtered through the surfaces on which the paint is applied, larger than life butterflies, bees and moths fading in and out of focus as an ephemeral gesture of resistance. In Folkestone this action was called Painting Day By Day In The Anthropocene.

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Our lives as consumers is part of a forced cycle of production, acquisition and waste creating a world with decreasing areas for other lifeforms This is the reality we exist in and these performances, masked and anonymous are perhaps an attempt to disrupt the narcissism of the current human condition.

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Interviews of all participating Artists were filmed in the back of black Mercedes Limousine and during this Tamaki Kawaguchi revealed "Insects are something we don't understand." and that the work was a kind of refusal or even a challenge to a world of endless stereotypes and consumption. The performance was also an opportunity to listen to the audience , the casual comments and observations on the butterflies and bees that share our world.