Hi everyone, I hope you had a nice September.
For me, it was a full month of painting and other things after the exhibitions closed.
Two exhibitions I had in July and August are now closed, and thank you so much for visiting. I'm so grateful to the people who came to see me and the shows. And it is always nice to see my paintings outside my atelier.
"ROOMS IN A ROOM" was my viewing room solo exhibition where I displayed my relatively recent window pieces. Because it wasn't a commercial gallery, but a gallery attached to my atelier building, I was able to display a mixture of window paintings. It became close to my initial image of "many windows in a room". It gave me many new inspirations. Rooms in a room is the idea of placing viewers inside and outside at the same time.
"UNKNOWN ENTRY POINT" was a group show at Romi Gallery in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Although I only had two pieces there, I was very happy to be part of them with great mostly local fellow artists and my favorite curator. If you are interested in two of my paintings included in this exhibition, they are available at Artsy.
About two paintings in the "Unknown Entry Point":
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A School Girl Liberation" — is a more surreal and imaginary piece with my memory from Japan. This is the first window I have water inside. The green water suggests the unclear sight and unknown-ness of outside your own place. The bow tie in her hand, she was always looking for her bow-tie, which was part of her official school uniform, and she couldn't go out without it. But every morning it was somewhere missing in her room. Now I wonder if it was an unconscious protest against following the rules that surrounded her. The rules were comfortable when we didn't question when we didn't doubt them. We knew they were there to protect us, but we had no freedom to refuse them. As she walks the quiet underwater searching for a small object, the heaviness of the water gives her gravity, and the water lilies above her are seeing her world above the water.
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Koma-neko" (Cat Guardian) — is a two-paneled window painting of two cats looking outside the window. I had initial inspiration from a first floor windows near my studio in Greenpoint where the window blinder was always open (broken) and two cats were always looking outside. All my paintings are made from a mixture of my imagination and real life. What the cats were looking at was below the blue sky reflected in the window. I tried to capture three + spaces on this surface.
Lastly, I'm sharing one of the things I was thinking these days...
When something happens or when something comes to me, I always wonder and ask myself, "Is this good timing?" No one can answer this question for me, and I also don't know the answer yet. But now I know even if something I was longing for finally comes to me, if it is not the right timing, it doesn't bloom. I'm learning that leaching my hand is also my choice. Sometimes, many similar opportunities may come to you, but it might be a one-shot opportunity you have been working for the past decade.
There are many new meetings and opportunities around us. But we only see them if we are attentive to ourselves and to the world.
I will see you soon here in my next posts as there are two more news I need to share with you.
