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LILICO ASO

LILICO ASO

The Face as a Question

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As featured on　CNN — Artisans

mutral /mjuːtrəl/

A concept developed from the Noh mask as a face that withholds excess expression and leaves room for relation.

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μ/mjuː/

Selected Work — μ, 2026 →

A work that opens the traditional practice of utsushi through intentional deviation and traces arising in the process.

01 Works

Objects that treat the face as a philosophical apparatus — where identity, time, and consciousness converge.

02 Research

Writing and inquiry across art, linguistics, cognitive science, and anthropology. The face as a field — not an object.

03 Noh Mask

A living practice within a 700-year tradition. Masks carved not to preserve, but to ask — what does the face hold that words cannot?

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