This will be the 2021 version of Love (or Nothing) Lives matter, which was created in 2020.
Unlike the former work, which was created in response to BLM in 2020, this work was created in response to StopAsianhateCrime in 2021.
Various oriental people (yellow hearts) have been hurt and died due to the unreasonableness of this world. I believe that some of them have gone to Hades with their regrets (Hate). In the concept of Hades, Hades, who returned from the underworld in Greek mythology, is famous as the god who later became the god Houjun.
The theme of this work is 'to be able to make people happy, even if they oppress you. I superimposed this thought on Hades in the underworld and expressed our Asian souls with yellow hearts.
The world is in chaos today. In South America, government abuse of the private sector is in the news every day as a social problem. There are people in this world who are struggling not only between races, but also against the unreasonableness of social hierarchy.
Comparing the composition to the Love (or Nothing) Lives matter produced in 2020, The Yellow Hades produced in 2021 has a symmetrical composition. In the former, it was a response to the BLM movement and represented three racialities, whereas the latter is a response to StopAsianhateCrime, or minority issues. I have given form to this strong feeling because I myself am also a party to minority issues. In other words, through Yellow Heart, I would like to make a declaration of my "complete" human rights as a human being with this work. I also want to make many people aware of minorities in society.
As for the coloring, it was inevitable for this work to incorporate a declaration of war on the issue of social hierarchy as seen in SOSSouthamerica, i.e., a critique of the power to take away people's freedom. This is because we had to leave behind the fact that in 2021, there are still people in society besides the yellow hearts (Orient) who are suffering from this and other problems. I had learned from the great artists who came before me that it is an important duty of the artist to capture history and preserve it for the future.
As the artist, I feel all the more happy if my work, including in relation to the former 2020 work, will encourage many minorities.
And to the Majority who will see this.
As is evident in San Francisco, California, diversity is synonymous with innovation. Our lives are moving forward every day because we have renewed our adherent culture with this diverse and flexible way of perceiving things. I hope this work will be appealing to the majority to eliminate prejudice against minorities.
