The name (so also the trademark logo) is a studied join between two terms, whose false distance and contrast, create the base of our research path: hagakure and hacker. Hagakure (that means “In the Shadow of Leaves”) is the word that indicates the practical and spiritual guide for the true samurai warrior. The letter “C” serves as connector with the other term, hacker, hidden and anagrammed in the first one. This single letter also joins the two different words representing the two different worlds. The terms Hagakure and hacker look for an escape from the real world to the virtual one. These two words represent two parallel worlds or two different types of warriors that, in spite of their different external manifestations, fight to give birth to the same mental provocations and frustrations.

Hagackure art’s aim is the research of the pure common sensations of all humanity in the perspective of a new scandalistic, even defiling approach, to the psychological analysis of human mind. Hagackure studies these common sensations starting from different points of view that, apparently at a first glance, seem to have nothing in common. Hagackure focuses its attention on the strongest sensations of the human soul; first, it focuses on the negative ones such as pain and frustration, that show the real essence of Hagackure. Hagackure believes that the human mind can be studied only in its purest form, free of any of external conditioning and, in particular, stemming from strong mental, cultural, physiological contrasts.

The research of Hagackure can be summarized by the pure, instinctive creation of provocations, arising from juxtapositions, frustrations, and different cultures, in order to express universal objective sensations. The research path begins at the lowest level of rationality that can be found in the disease. The anger of a “hagakure” or the fear of a “hacker”, in his or her solitude, is linked to the results of studies of those civilizations that, apparently, act and give precendence to the inner, instintive forces common to all men; that is, of course, until the most scandalous even defiling state of mind whose loss of rationality is reached because of trances, hypnoses, and the psychological products which these states of mind create.