SHOWCASE

/ ARTIST / 2026

BKKIF Artist  
ARTIST: CHOSKO
COUNTRY/REGION: Japan
CONTACT: https://www.instagram.com/chosko.artwork/
Hi, I’m CHOSKO, a visual artist from Japan.

I explore the hidden structures that shape our emotional lives.
Drawing inspiration from psychology, I examine how emotions are formed, transformed, and connected to one another. Through simple visual forms and systems, I translate psychological concepts into visual structures.

Rather than depicting emotions themselves, I am interested in the patterns and relationships that exist beneath them. By making these structures visible, I hope to encourage a deeper reflection on what we feel and why we feel it.
ⓘ Note

Absolute Secure Base

Every person needs a secure base.
In developmental psychology, a secure base is the stable presence that allows a child to explore the world. Because there is always a place to return to, we can take risks, recover from setbacks, and continue moving forward.
A secure base is defined by two qualities: stability and consistency. It remains present despite uncertainty, unaffected by external threats or change.
In this work, the house sits quietly within an infinite form. Whether day or night, it remains unchanged—a constant place of return.

Internal Secure Base

At first, a secure base exists outside of us.
Through repeated experiences of being protected, understood, and accepted, it slowly takes root within. What was once external becomes an inner presence.
This work depicts the journey of a secure base becoming an internal one—a place we can return to wherever we are.

Cross-Section of Emotions

What would we see if emotions had cross-sections?
Like geological layers hidden beneath the earth’s surface, emotions may contain feelings that are not immediately visible. What appears as one emotion can hold multiple emotional states, sometimes contradictory in nature.
This zine explores the inner layers of emotional experience, imagining emotions not as singular states, but as complex structures composed of many unseen parts.

Boundary

What gives shape to a sense of self?
This work explores the role of psychological boundaries. Rather than separating people, boundaries define the space in which individuality can exist.
Without them, emotions, thoughts, and identities may become difficult to distinguish. With them, connection becomes possible without losing oneself.

Joy, Joy, Joy / Tears, Tears, Tears

Joy and sadness do not always arrive through extraordinary events.
They often emerge from the smallest moments of everyday life—a treat, a discovery, a delay, an absence.
This work gathers fragments of these ordinary experiences, revealing how seemingly insignificant moments can leave lasting emotional impressions.

Structures of Emotion

What structures emerge when emotions are examined through the language of mathematics, time, and motion?
This work explores the possibility that emotions are more than momentary feelings. They move, accumulate, transform, and interact according to patterns that are often invisible to us.
By reimagining emotions as subjects of inquiry, the work seeks to reveal the hidden structures that shape our inner experiences.

Primary Emotion / Secondary Emotion

What is anger trying to tell us?
Though it often appears as a powerful and visible emotion, anger may be only the surface. Beneath it can exist quieter feelings—fear, sadness, disappointment, or pain.
This work visualizes the layered nature of emotional experience, suggesting that what we express is not always where a feeling begins.

Record of Emotions

What if emotions could be played back like a record?
What if every feeling left a trace, accumulating into a unique pattern over time?
This series visualizes the imagined tracks of emotional experiences. The marks, rhythms, and densities differ from one record to another, suggesting that every emotional life forms its own composition.

What Is Your Emotion Now?

How do we recognize an emotion?
In this work, the eyes and nose remain unchanged while the eyebrows and mouth continuously transform. With only a few shifting lines, entirely different emotional states emerge.
By reducing facial expressions to their simplest elements, the work examines the visual structures through which emotions become recognizable.

Release

What makes room for something new?
This work explores the relationship between release and space. As accumulated emotions, thoughts, and experiences are allowed to leave, a previously occupied space begins to open.
Rather than depicting loss, the work considers emptiness as a necessary condition for growth, movement, and transformation.

BKKIF ARTIST SPECIAL

More Artwork/Merchandise:

At BKKIF 2026, I’ll be presenting a selection of works exploring emotions and the inner workings of the mind. The artworks will not be for sale, but visitors can take part in a lucky draw for a chance to take home art prints and other special prizes. Come visit the CHOSKO booth and discover the works in person.

The COLLAPSE series

Inspired by the idea that just as things break in different ways, the human mind can also collapse in different ways. This series explores various forms of emotional breakdown, visualizing the invisible processes of pressure, fracture, and collapse.

SHATTER

A gradual descent into collapse, where what once held together eventually shatters into pieces.
From the “Collapse” series.

ABOUT TO EXPLODE

Pressure builds and expands until it reaches the point where it can no longer be contained.
From the “Collapse” series.

STACKED BUT STUCK

What has been carefully built up begins to collapse from its very foundation.
From the “Collapse” series.

SNAP

Unnoticed pressure builds over time, until something suddenly snaps.
From the “Collapse” series.

INEVITABLE

Some forms of collapse are inevitable — simply the result of time passing.
From the “Collapse” series.

REVEALED

As the structure collapses, what was hidden within is exposed.
From the “Collapse” series.

HOW THEY THREATEN

Animals make their threats clear — baring their teeth, sharpening their gaze, or making themselves appear larger. But humans can threaten with a smile.

FILTER

We perceive the same world differently, shaped by our own individual filters. What feels joyful to one person may feel frightening to another. A dazzling carousel, for example, may seem magical to some, while to others it can feel like an endless loop — going round and round with no way to get off.

EMOTIONS IN HANDS

Hands can speak without words. A simple gesture can reveal affection, anger, love, accusation, or impulse — sometimes saying more than words ever could.

BLUE

Created for the “Blue Exhibition” held at PARK GALLERY in Tokyo in the summer of 2026. Blue can carry different, even contradictory meanings — sadness and calm, immaturity and comfort, distance and trust. Shaped by our memories, emotions, and experiences, the same color can become something entirely different to each of us. Perhaps this elusiveness is part of what makes blue, blue.

WHAT EVENTUALLY BECOMES…

Created for the “Blue Exhibition” held at PARK GALLERY in Tokyo in the summer of 2026. Blue is often associated with sadness. But perhaps there is blue within anger, too. Behind anger can lie other emotions — sadness, fear, disappointment, or hurt — gradually transforming into something else. This work explores how emotions are not separate, but connected, changing form as one feeling becomes another. The title leaves what they eventually become open to interpretation.