We know Tetsumi Kudo and Ionesco fell out during the making of La Vase; looking at how Kudo went on to use Ionesco in his work. it must have been a very serious misunderstanding. Ionesco's head (right) plays a special part in Kudo's Pollution-Cultivation-New Ecology programme.First 'pollution' (deconstruction): here Ionesco moults or sheds his body parts which are hung around his head in a tiny cage, displayed as ornaments; also included a tiny crucifix, little chits with 'merci' written on them and what looks like a glass of Chimay. The caption for this work is 'end of some generation' ie end of Euro/Christian/ Humanist generation; Ionesco's face is the face of this generation.
That is not the end of the story: after 'pollution' and 'moulting' cultivation can begin. Ionesco's parts reassemble, uncaged, democratically living alongside other organic and non-organic elements; his head is now growing but notice the electronic circuitry. Finally (below) Ionesco is free to develop in a hydroponic sphere part of a New Ecology flourishing, wired up, among plants, valves and reproductive organs. Amazing what can happen to an aging, surrealist intellectual. He'd be grateful.
