This work is a part of an exhibit that was on display from June to September 1999 in 3 places in the Tokyo area, Makuhari's Canon Wonder Museum, Harajuku's Rocket and Kichijoji's Shop33. I started working on the "Encyclopedia Robotica" series in 1996. This year I have finally completed 50 works, enough to completely fill the 150 square meter Canon Wonder Museum. Harajuku's Rocket displayed nine of my "Self Defense Mark Design" works and one flag graphic mark which they used to convey their shops image. They have been on display there for a full year from the time the National Flag and Anthem Bill was passed and the missile from a neighboring country flew towards Japan. The techno fashion western clothing store Shop33 is now selling T-shirts and flags with this mark printed on them.

The robotized (or perhaps anthropomorphized) characters created by the artist always possess a specific function. The artist brilliantly extracts the core essence of that function with a refined sensibility and impressive modeling skills, successfully translating it into each new character. This creative process seems to go beyond artistic expression, to suggest to us new possibilities for the man-machine interface.