This work is my self-portrait. Persona" has been proposed by Carl Jung, the great psychologist. Persona, as proposed by Jung, is defined as "a concept that refers to a function or an aspect of a function in which a person plays a required role in social life. Most people have a number of personas, all of which are derived from themselves. This work is composed of two elements. One is the background and the other is the silhouette of a large angel. For the first background, I first selected only the parts of a randomly created abstract pattern that I found beautiful, and then I shaped them with a cloud-shaped weyi. This represents the so-called "outsider" persona. The silhouette of an angel is an arrangement of the motif of a young girl, which I have drawn as a projection of myself, as I have always felt a sense of loneliness in my life. In other words, as a single work, I depicted a self with an incompatible sense of loneliness on a background that represents a persona that tries to harmonize with its surroundings. This is, so to speak, a cubist depiction of the multiple personas of the self. By reconstructing his multiple personas on a single canvas, the artist attempted to visualize and recognize himself as composed of multiple personas. Although I painted the background with a Japanese element, "egumo," and the silhouette of an angel, a symbol of Western religious beliefs, mainly using different painting materials, watercolors and acrylics, respectively, so that they did not blend with each other, I did not want to give up the idea of harmonizing them, and so I used the title "Egumo," which was composed by Alban Berg, as the title of the work. I borrowed the name of a representative piece of atonal music composed by Alban Berg.
