TETTA's works range wide over a number of motifs incorporating Buddhism. Through the artist's assimilation into the picture, sometimes even wearing modern clothing, She creates works of a special sensibility. There is a certain sensitivity in the way a flat work is begun with oil paints and ends as performance, with the artist inserted, disguised as Kannon, using digital manipulation.

GALLERY MoMo Roppongi will host TETTA's exhibition, "My Underground," from March 13th to April 2nd. It will show her digital montage using the motif of the thousand-armed Kannon. The exhibits dates will overlap with the VOCA 2010, which contains oil paintings.

TETTA completed her studies at the graduate program of Tama Art University last April. In the year 2008, while still enrolled, she exhibited in a show for the Kanagawa Prefecture. The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, recognized her by purchasing her works.

Artist Comment

Buddhist imagery began to seep into my work almost nine years ago.
In my quest, so that my ideas and Buddhism could be linked, I had to forget about death so that I could have living be a focus of my work.
A year ago I visited the Kuzui Temple in Oosaka. The main image of the thousand-armed Kannon actually does have a thousand arms. These arms, extending out before the heartless world, evoke an overpowering heaviness and presence and result in a strong sense of vitality.
I have contemplated how that strength corresponds to the repetitive action of the artist who created the statue. However, my actions are mere foolishness.
At this point the thousand-armed Kannon has become the overarching theme image. Those thousand hands show the magnificent power and compassion of Kannon's attempt to save, without ever revealing the living being behind them.
That repeated action of selecting, copying, and pasting, are my own "testimony of action," my own "revealation."
That is what I want to express.
TETTA, 2010