JUM Nakao
How would your mother describe you?
Hard worker
What's your principal defect?
Hard worker
What's your favourite foreign word? Why?
My new favourite word is kiwi, because it looks like kawai, that means beautiful in japanese
What do you have at your bedside table?
Books, insecticide for mosquitoes, water
Describe your creative side?
Complex
The title for your show is ‘A Costura do Invisivel’, which translates as ‘sewing the invisible’.
What does this mean?
Work on what people can’t see. Make visible what is invisible. or as my last quotation from my book: “We need to strip our souls bare to reveal our capacity to be light, to dream of the unsayable, the impossible, the inexplicable, the indefinable. And to associate the visible trace with the invisible, creating volumes, textures, colors, words, designs, openings and pathways toward a new thinking. That is what it means to sew the invisible. “
What was it like seeing all of your paper dresses being destroyed at the fashion show A Costura Do Invisivel?
A sensation of freedom
Is paper your favourite material to work with? If so, what are the qualities that you like about paper?
My material is the human perception, that’s what I am sculpting through my works. Paper was the selected material as a metaphor, because it is the realm of the sketch, of notes, and a part of the creative process, a fragile, fleeting material, sensitive to the action of time. A white, unfinished, empty work, capable of becoming laden with meanings, with poetry, and with the lightness necessary for the work to flow.
How do you overcome a creative block?
Changing my point of view. For that, I stop thinking, and I dedicate my time to other activities, any activity, then when I return I get the solution.\
When do you feel most inspired?
It’s not predictable.
What’s your favourite piece you’ve made?
Revolver.
What is a question you would like to be asked?
I am your sponsor, how much do you need?