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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 disposition of holding feelings and opinions —
yet remaining quietly at the position before tilting either way.
Not silence. Not indifference.
In that space between — a relationship opens.

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New work：μ　2026 — In Progress

A Noh mask, 3D-scanned. Its data — with losses intact, unrepaired — milled at an enlarged scale.
To copy faithfully is to copy incompletely.
What remains when transmission fails?

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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 600-year tradition. Masks carved not to preserve, but to ask — what does the face hold that words cannot?

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