I have been forced to become more aware of the country and its borders than I have ever been before. In the midst of these days, I took a walk with my 0-year-old daughter and wondered what she was feeling as she saw different landscapes for the first time. I imagined a world where I existed and my loved ones did not. I imagined a world with loved ones and without me. One day, such a world will surely come. I want to be the landscape of my loved ones. With these thoughts in mind, I decided to paint a fragmented LAND.
This work is inspired by the Japanese waka poem technique of “appropriation" (="Honkadori") and the Kabuki theatrical technique of "twining” (="Naimaze”). I "choose" the motifs to be drew, then, I emphasize the "juxtaposition" of these motifs.
This work is words and images associated with countries, lands, and landscapes, cited from classic literature, graffiti, and contemporary photographs, are presented in a discontinuous, unclassified form.