Mari Araki’s yellow shower
Artist Statement:
In truth, I have an undying love for the act of painting. To me, painting is merely an end to the means by which the consciousness of perfection becomes an effort to exude labor. I value the limitations of labor and its exertions. It is through such limitations and exertions that I instinctively recreate process—a process in which allows me to discover and experience. I find pain and pleasure in what I discover and experience each day with my work, and that is my own invention. My images reflect a condition that investigates different levels of happiness and sadness—only I can understand that condition. My narratives have become a personal diary of all the frustrations and aspirations I face daily in life.
It was once said that an artist’s native land could turn the stimulus of line and color into a great insinuations. Nothing has influenced my work more than being born and raised in Japan. Now, with a heavy western influence prevalent throughout modern-day Japan, I turn inward, to explore the essence of a timeless culture, to merge the new in the old, and to represent age-old ideals that are so often forgotten and lost. [Via Mari Araki
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