Concept
I was about eight years old when I realized that one day I would surely have to die.
I might disappear forever, and I won't know that until I actually die. As I lay awake at night, pondering the "day my consciousness would disappear," I almost vomited my heart out of my mouth.
I had to do some...
I was about eight years old when I realized that one day I would surely have to die.
I might disappear forever, and I won't know that until I actually die. As I lay awake at night, pondering the "day my consciousness would disappear," I almost vomited my heart out of my mouth.
I had to do something, I thought. I must do something about myself, not about dying. I have to convince myself that I will die while I am still alive. To cheer myself up, I tried to paint the "scary" and the "sad" as brightly as possible.
Think about what the essence of attachment is.
We spend most of our lives in the vastness of the world.
But in reality, the only information a person experiences about the world is what he or she sees with his or her eyes and processes with his or her brain. For example, you and I may see the same thing, but our eyes and brains experience the world differently.
In this sense, I think about "what is the value of figurative painting in contemporary art?
I believe that the true nature of emotion is the possibility of a new approach to figurative painting.
As long as we are alive, we are always trying to see.
We see someone's face, we see a house, we see a city, we see our kitchen, and we feel "attached" to it. Despite the different subjective information we receive, we all feel almost a common attachment to the information we receive through our visual experiences.
I believe that this "attachment to what we see" is a glimpse of compassion.
If "human vision is subjective, yet we share the same sense of attachment we feel when we see figurative motifs," what are the possibilities for new approaches to figurative painting?
In recent years in particular, people tend to think that attachment is really "obsession. However, is not the heart that seeks to see due to "compassion," the most primitive and pure love?
Compassion is the feeling of friendship, and compassion is the feeling of sympathy. In the East, "compassion" is a sympathetic, unattached love that takes the suffering of all living beings as its own.
At the same time that humans acquired an extremely large cerebral cortex, they also acquired a desire to analyze, control, and modify it and the ability to do so. But humans were also given a well-developed insular cortex (said to be the area responsible for empathy).
We have the ability to feel compassion on a foundation of empathy.
My work aims to sprout a glimpse of compassion in the heart of the viewer.
My artwork is based on my own memories of compassion that I have experienced.
If I find compassion in fear, anxiety, or sad experiences, I depict it as a motif.
It is sometimes said that "emotion and compassion are opposites." The same can surely be said of artistic sensibility, since it is based on feelings such as liking. Therefore, my challenge is to make my work a variable for the viewer to receive a glimpse of compassion.
Through experience, my work is consciously transformed.
I am the conduit through which the received compassion is conveyed to the viewer in the form of artwork.
"Everything that has a heart is a self that has changed its nature."
I have developed an expression that juxtaposes multiple motifs while maintaining a balance of mutual influences. I position the theme of my work as "visual expression of self and others".
The expression of complementary colors influencing each other is not only to increase the saturation of each other. This idea is inspired by Fauvism's concept of subjective color sense and biomorphic imagery.
The color scheme of the motifs on the canvas is based on the idea that the self and the other are separate yet inseparable. I am looking for an answer to express in my paintings the Eastern idea that "everything that has a mind is a self that has changed its nature.
