When I am deeply depressed I can't create anything. The second time that happened I felt there was no longer anything to create. The only thing I could do was erase. That is when Chosokabe began making art based on the concept of absence or removal. After I'd been doing it for a long time and I had recovered my equilibrium, I did a lot of reading and realized the work is a substitute behavior for suicide.
Suicide is the way a work of art is completed.
For me, as long as suicide is not chosen, the work is somehow continuing. During her sabbatical in the United States, Chosokobe is staying with Carol Westfall of Fine Arts. The two met while Westfall was on sabbatical in 1992 teaching in the textile department at Seian College. Westfall said Rachel Fordyce of Humanities and Social Sciences and Ken Olenik of History were instrumental in bringing Chosokobe to the United States and bringing her March exhibit to the University Art Gallery. The exhibit already has been shown at the Keen Gallery in SoHo.