“BAKIBAKI pattern works are simply symbols rather than paintings.”

This statement will help to understand the essence of BAKIBAKI concept.Writing one’s name is the most symbolic representation of the personality.On the one hand, we write name on papers such as signature on the contracts or asking autograph of someone we admire.On the other hand, street artists tag their name on surfaces of cities.”Tagging” is speechful expression of artist’s presence, and those tagged symbols will have various meanings once it has done on walls.BAKIBAKI works become a part of continuous story on human’s creation,and it would be appeared as a message in a bottle when passed on to the generation centuries after. We would never know future perspective on BAKIBAKI symbols, however we do know artist’s messages have been spread around the world.And logs of the messages will be rooted onto stream of time eternally.
Text by Kawako Hasegawa