“Japaneseness infuses everything, from the way the buildings collude in their space-making to the extraordinary quietness of the streets, where the dominant sound is the soft, insistent rain of a trillion footsteps.”
Excerpt from an Elizabeth Farrelly article at The Sydney Morning Herald.
Besides that poetical description of Japan (that someday I wish to know) I also wanted to incorporate a picture that shows the other side of J-country…the playfulness and sometimes corky way of expression of this culturally charged people.
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A Japan-American Pop and Abstract Art Show.
Aiko Nakagawa pursues a dissection of the cultural and social cacophony, focusing more on a manipulation of familiar pop images that reintroduces them to viewers in new and challenging ways. A decidedly non-aggressive means of suggesting social, political and religious commentary, her method of extracting recognizable forms from their usual context yields a recolored, retextured rearrangement that demands contemplation. The pictured work Kitty could be a self portrait – a visual representation of preexisting cultural and historical shapes that may assemble to form the framework of an individual identity. Colors, textures and compositions customized, the product is neither an original nor a replica – it is a unique refraction of inherited influences that alerts viewers to their own origins.
Excerpt from former Lineage Gallery website
