Japanese Woman Lives as a Hamster

My God, I love Japan. Whenever I need something to write about, and I am edging writer's block, Japanese people bail me out every time. There is always something "quixotical" to write about when it comes to Japan.

Such is the case here where performance artist Sako Kojima decided to go to France and live as a hamster. During that time, she ran around, bit wood and paper, and scratched walls — as a hamster. And as an added bonus, she donned a fursuit.

But pray tell, why did she desire to live as a hamster?

At present I'm 　　interested in the psychology of diseased human psychology for the civilized world, because it's the almost same as my pain. Human is thinking animal therefore, we tire, sad, go mad. I'm thinking, I want to become just a small animal, because they don't meditate, they aren't thinking deep. It's the reason, I'm doing animal performance. But all of my works are rather optimistic than gloomy. At first sight, the works appear unique and cute but after time the works show a sense of irony pain and sadness of individual human experience.

Sako Kojima - Works

So apparently, the reason behind all of this was because she was tired of thinking but she wanted to also express a sense of irony about the human experience. And she thought the best means of doing this was to live as a hamsters.

I will submit, though, that she forgot the most important part about being a hamster: the hamster wheel. What kind of hamster are you if you can't get on that hamster wheel and make a good run of it? For, isn't it the experience of running but ultimately going nowhere that belies the futility of human experience?