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Born in Philippines and immigrated to Australia, grown with a strong interest in Japan for its cultural aspect: From his experience Miguel Aquilizan has paid attention to the cultural displacement and ambiguity. The sculpture work series he calls "object collage" highlights the transforming cultural identity by the international traffic of people and things. In this "object collage" Aquilizan puts various natural objects and junk products together and creates sculptures. The material favored especially is the Japanese item he collected at "Japan Surplus" in …