Ryo Kikuchi while studying 20th century philosophy and ideas of Zen Buddhism, through his works reflects on the particularities of human perception and mechanisms of the mind in general and using various painterly technics creates objects that shake our common vision of reality and the way we think it is structured. His "Umbilical" stresses the mechanisms of "the separation" and "insertion of difference" crucial for our production of identities and meaning, while keeping the possibility of connecting three “separate” parts of the work back again in one unity. His “Void” series presents vaguely visible landscape or object, which while “asking” for the closer observation "vanishes" in the rows of dots when the viewer make a step closer to the image, thus totally dismantling the possibility of the distance necessary for the clear observation, and opening the void.