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35.66907, 139.763135

35.66907, 139.763135

W 41.00cm x H 41.00cm x D 2.00cm

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  • About this 35.66907, 139.763135

    Detail

    Medium

    Others

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2024

    Sign

    Artists' signature on the back of the artwork

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    My work is based on the theme of "Chill" and serves as a device for escaping reality, confronting oneself, and cooling down. The motifs of my works are actual landscapes, and by using the flat and low-information technique of "dyeing" to depict landscapes as perceived by a third party, I intentionally draw them to connect to the pleasant moments hidden in the anonymous and déjà vu side of our daily lives. The dots on the work are freehand designs created by traces of wax, and are intended to evoke a pleasant, concentrated passage of time during the production process from the accumulation of simple actions, and the changes in the size of the dots give a strong sense of emotional swings and visual effects. The name of the work is a motif of the scenery that can be seen from the coordinates of the work, and I include issues that are an extension of daily life by adding a bit of discomfort. Every thing is like a gradation, and a different story is born depending on how each person perceives it. I would like to continue to question from what standpoint we face the universal sense of comfort that each individual has from trivial everyday scenes and the problems that lie behind them.

  • About this artist

    Concept

    Jo Katayama creates her works using a dyeing technique that adds her own unique skill to wax dyeing. The dyeing process is carefully planned and repeated many times with many restrictions, and Katayama's skill and ability to accomplish it make it possible to create layers of patterns and delicate expressions of her works. Unlike painting, "dyeing" does not produce unevenness on the surface even if colors are layered. However, the colors layered over and over soak into the threads, and traces of trial and error in the production process appear on the surface of the fabric, creating the transparent colors and soft, deep expressions that only dyes can produce.

    I hope my paintings will be a device for escaping reality and returning to solitude, for facing oneself and cooling down. I paint ordinary landscapes with the comfort I feel from my own experience. I believe that each person has his or her own moment when he or she can receive a pleasant impression of freedom from the tedium of daily life, not only from a physical angle, but also from various factors such as the point of view, light, temperature, humidity, and emotions at that moment. I want to represent those moments when even ordinary objects resonate with us based on our experiences and give us a special feeling." --- Jo Katayama

    The dots scattered throughout the work are designs created by traces of freehand drawing using wax. The motifs are simple, yet arranged at exquisite intervals without interfering with each other, giving the viewer a sense of the comfortable passage of time, and the changes in the size of the motifs, large and small, are designed to create a stronger emotional swing and visual effect.

    Katayama believes that there is an overlap between his own ineffective method of production and the days of writhing and suffering in a society where there are no do-overs and many ties. Even so, Katayama is able to get new ideas by interacting with the phenomena in front of him, and in this day and age when many people have a hard time living, he is allowed to face the work itself and be there with it as a landscape. I would like to create a comfortable space without a sense of rejection with the light colors of dyeing expression.

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