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The work of artist Ai Hasegawa is noticeable on marriage, family, and reproductive theme.

"(IM) Possible Baby (non -possible child: Asako and Moriga" (2015), which I mentioned in the previous episode (2015), raised to make children between the same gender, and "Shared Baby" (2011/2019)Then, not only did he technically and ethically pursuing a genetic child from three or more parents, but also the impact on children (adults) involving multiple parents (adults).Asked what was connecting the child.

The bottom of the home pyramid

Hasegawa shakes our "common sense" in these families and marriage, which has a significant effect on the experiences of birth homes who have been graduating from high school.

He lived in his parents' home in Shizuoka Prefecture with his grandparents, parents, and siblings.Originally, it was an area where the concept of male -female and women's hypershesi was deeply rooted, so in all life, such as bathing, the strict home hierarchy is dominating the house, where the grandfather who is the chief, Hasegawa and sister are below their younger brother.rice field.

He is still a good family, but in addition to the environment of "I have lived in this home pyramid in this home pyramid" (Hasegawa), the teaching of emerging religions that my grandmother believed also pyramids.It was stronger.

Every month, a person who is called a "teacher" comes to the house, and since childhood, he said, "Please pray together."Even after leaving the house at the same time as going to college, when I return home, I spill my family saying "I have a little trouble" and say, "If you go to the teacher for about a month?"was.

It was during the Great Hanshin -Awaji Earthquake that all began to question that "God" was over.He said, "It was good because there were no victims in our religion believers," he felt contradiction and resentment, saying, "Is the god of these people like that?"And I thought like this.

"It's impossible to live in this religion world anymore."

"Dreaming power" cultivated by fiction

Hasegawa came to imagine the potential of various future, and there were various fictions affected (the picture is an image).

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An editor of Hasegawa's book, "To be a revolutionary of 20XX -Speculative Design Classes," says Yuna Tsukada.

"Ai has thought that breaking this rule is only because the world is so strong that it makes sense to live."

Those who saved Hasegawa in the trapped and oppressed world were science fiction, fantasy novels and manga.Only when I was immersed in the world, I was somewhere here.Hasegawa's starting point is that his dreams are "dreaming" is his experience at this time.