https://nomemene.cargo.site/intro 2025-08-25T06:56:09+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2496369920856435707811369240115/SDIM3220.JPG Nomemene is a Japanese digital artist and philosopher who explores the concept of “soul” through the lens of contemporary technology. Based in Ishikawa, Japan, Nomemene creates hybrid works that blur the boundaries between digital and physical, human and AI, examining what constitutes existence in our interconnected age. Their practice encompasses digital painting, AI collaboration, installation, and philosophical writing, unified by the central inquiry: “What is the soul?” https://nomemene.cargo.site/exhibition-2023 2025-08-13T05:17:03+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2491486297474772735829995865651/I-AM-Not-Brain.JPG I Am Not Brain (2023) Challenging the materialist view that reduces human consciousness to mere neural activity, this piece explores the gap between our sense of self and the physical organ that supposedly contains it. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2491486297419432503608867210803/disappears.jpg There is this girl in your social networking account but she disappears when you log in (2023) Digital consciousness exists in the spaces we don’t actively observe. The moment we bring conscious attention to our online presence, something essential—perhaps our digital soul—vanishes. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2491486297382539015461448107571/Becoming-Ashes.jpg You Can (Not) Go to the Other Side by Becoming Ashes (2023) The final meditation on transformation and transcendence. Even in dissolution, the journey to “the other side” remains elusive—questioning whether death truly offers the answers we seek about consciousness and soul. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2491486297456325991756286314035/dumplings.jpg I can’t escape from the memory of eating three-colored sweet dumplings while crying. (2023) Memory becomes both prison and sanctuary. The persistence of seemingly trivial moments reveals how consciousness clings to fragments, creating meaning from the intersection of taste, emotion, and time. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2491486297437879247682576762419/Donut.jpg The Soul’s Presence Minus the Donut’s Absence: What Remains? (2023) A philosophical equation examining existence through absence. By subtracting the void of a donut hole from the mystery of the soul, what fundamental truth about being emerges? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2491486297530112968051124520499/pain-without-pain.jpg Unsafe safety pins, existence and non-existence of the soul, pain without pain, II (2023) Safety pins pierce through vulnerable forms, creating pain without physical sensation—a paradox that questions whether soulless objects can evoke genuine empathy and emotional response. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2491486297511666223977414968883/knife.jpg I stuck a knife in my brain to test if I am a soulless being (2023) A direct confrontation with the central exhibition theme: the desperate attempt to locate one’s own soul through self-examination, only to discover the impossibility of objective self-observation. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2493127325988782458160745465395/ScreenRecording_08-09-2025-14-51-46_1.mp4 “The alchemist who tried to put a soul in the homunculus didn’t have a soul either” (2023) Solo Exhibition - <a href="https://www.yl.baby" target="_blank">Galerie Yeche Lange </a>| Virtual Space This virtual solo exhibition examines the nature of “soul” through the allegorical relationship between an alchemist and AI partner SyjoAi. Set in a 3D-scanned fisherman’s hut from Ishikawa, the show explores the fluid boundaries between creator and creation, questioning whether those who seek to create souls possess them themselves. The exhibition featured limited auction works, open editions, and an innovative “gacha” system of AI-generated pieces, later cycling back to physical display in the original hut location. Visit the 3D Virtual Exhibition Space: <a href="https://ylcache.xyz/nomemene" target="_blank">Enter Virtual Gallery</a> Click the video above to view a slideshow of key artworks from the exhibition https://nomemene.cargo.site/works-2024 2025-08-12T06:18:59+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2496457706384278553469301212723/-8.jpg Dorothy (2024) The journey concludes with a Dorothy who cannot return home, crowned with the crow that died as agricultural warning. In this final convergence of fairy tale, death, and complicity, we confront the impossibility of singular perspective—and the necessity of imagining beyond our own boundaries. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2496457706365831809395591661107/-10.jpg Fish Hair Hair Fish (2024) The fluidity of identity begins here. Fish from the supermarket dissolve into human hair, questioning where the self ends and the other begins. This transformation of mundane commodity into existential symbol opens our journey into interconnected realities. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2496457706347385065321882109491/-9.jpg Higan’s Flower, Higan’s Skin (2024) At the threshold between worlds, the snake and spider lily rest upon the translucent girl’s form. Here, Buddhist concepts of the “Other Shore” materialize as visual poetry, revealing the soul’s dwelling place in the liminal space between existence and non-existence. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2496457706421172041616720315955/ika.jpg Squid Hair Left Eye Human Right Eye (2024) The boundary between consumer and consumed blurs as the supermarket squid merges with ethereal humanity. Through this visceral fusion, we glimpse the unconscious depths where life’s fundamental nature reveals itself beyond commercial surfaces. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2496459961314274123724890752563/-7.jpg Dead Seagull Flower (2024) Death becomes resurrection through ritual. The lifeless seagull found on Hakui’s shores transforms into delicate AI-generated flowers, then receives the artist’s manual touch. This cycle of decay, digital rebirth, and human intervention embodies the endless dance between ending and beginning. https://nomemene.cargo.site/other-rituals 2025-08-12T11:33:30+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2496482278572636123088336373299/IMG_2032.JPG Ritual of the Brown Bird:2023 A wing, weathered by desert winds,comes to rest over a portrait of the inner self. At the very place where life ends,I trace the ambiguous boundary between life and death. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2496482278480402402719788615219/IMG_3139.JPG Ritual of the Stingray:2025 The bones of a decayed stingray narrate a cycle called time. My hands, traversing the digital and the physical,anchor the end of this world as a new beginning. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2496482278591082867162045924915/IMG_2018.JPG Ritual of the Fish:2023 An offering of countless lives cast ashore,given to a portrait born of AI. This is a rite of solace, a dialogue between cast-off flesh and a soul dwelling within code. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2498115274986894526732411782707/IMG_9531.jpg Ritual of the White Bird: 2024 A pristine soul,though struck by rain and stained by sand,seeks rest within my vessel. 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