This is the second installment of the "Hello Project," in which Matsuda, who calls himself a "scam" artist, collaborates on his own with the works of masters. The work is based on Barnett Newman's The Wild. Barnett was an artist who aimed to create works that were "sublime" both figuratively and spiritually, as seen in the text "Sublime is Now.”
*Matsuda's "Hello Project" is not so much an ironic production against existing art, but rather a self-indulgent supplementary proposal against masterpieces. Mostly it aims at a fusion of high art and low art. In other words, it is an experiment that supplements a work that tries to establish a stoic spirituality with ideas that are mundane and greedy. To use an analogy from the suburbs where I grew up, it is like adding the culture of "Amagasaki," which is filled with adult "ugliness" such as gambling parlors and red-light districts, to "Ashiya," a high-class residential area where there are no pachinko parlors or other entertainment establishments.