Nanjo, Fumio. "Tadanori Yokoo" (Interview with Yokoo Tadanori.) Flash Art (International Edition). No. 137 (Nov/Dec 1987). 96-97. In 1997, the author Fumio Nanjo interviewed the Japanese artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo to further understand how his art goes beyond reality to an even greater sentimentalism. Fumio discovered how Yokoo's interests in Indian philosophy, and the spiritual world, and his recent viewing of the Picasso exhibit at the MOMA, were incorporated into his "new painting" technique. The author highlighted that fact that Yokoo had used the occult and mysticism-related themes to achieve a sense of awareness that other senses do exist beyond our five, and, furthermore, it is through his art that we can come to that realization. He preferred a world in which the mystic and the spiritual are, in fact, a reality. The author extracted Yokoo's personal experiences with these spiritual worlds, discovering that the artist had seen ghosts, UFOs, psychic apparitions, and even had a "psychic exchange" with Mishima Yukio. He extracted a main theme of his art as a medium to express the common problem facing all man kind of the spiritual introspective world that lives in the unconscious, where the "truer self" lives, and then compared this theme to Christian (Western) religious beliefs. The author was thorough in his approach to the artist and the beliefs behind his techniques. The Western voice and opinions of the author could be heard, but this did not interfere with the presentation of the interview. The interview concluded with Tokoo's universally expressed concern with the concept and fear of death. The artist believed that this realization should be a starting point instead of an ending point. Hilary Amoss