JAPANESE IRIS

Concept

Pornographic actresses twisted into a twisted shape, psychedelic colored mining sites, suspiciously lit cafe tables, the Internet, magazines, movies, etc. Various images that linger in our daily lives are transformed into eccentric icons by the painter's hand. Onuma draws from a wide range of media, and his subjects are diverse. He sometimes draws inspiration from old wall stains or the cries of whales to create new images, not to mention the more conventional themes of landscapes, figures, and still life. After about 10 years of study, Onuma has developed a style of expression that integrates and simplifies the use of light and shadow in pre-19th century Western figurative painting with the outlines of Oriental ink painting and ukiyo-e. This style strips away the model's original characteristics, nature, nationality, gender, and all other elements that shape her existence, and creates a simple, colorful surface. It is a simple colored surface puzzle-like iconography. Structurally, the work is extremely unstable, and the slightest deviation can lead to the collapse of the entire picture plane. The painter is trying to thoroughly expose the fragility and vulnerability inherent in art in his own unique way. For him, a painting is not something sublime or lovely, but something like the excrement of a mediocre brain that has become unable to store the vast amount of images it sees in its daily life. And the paintings, which seem to blow up easily at first glance, exist in the midst of a modern society that can be called an image dump, barely maintaining a precarious equilibrium.