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Primitive Shelf II 2019 50x62 inch oil on canvas |
Future
Primitive XV 2019 48x48 inch oil on canvas |
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Primitive XVI 2019 48x48 inch oil on canvas |
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Future Primitive is my painting series that has been
simultaneously developed together with my sculpture series
Primitive Future. This series starts with sketching abandoned objects that I find on the street of Harlem, NY where I’m currently living. Those objects include furniture, baby toys, sports equipment, and daily commodities and they remind me of my hometown, Kochi, a small city in Japan, in the 90’s when Japan’s economy slumped. I was surrounded by many things that look like existing in the gray area between human territory and the surrounding nature, such as ivy covered houses, postponed construction sites, empty lots where people threw trash. In the sketches, I extract elements that look like organic out of the found objects and re-assemble them into plant-like shapes. Unlike sculpture series, drawing allows me to deform the shapes and add colors and textures. When finally painting them on canvas, the objects connote fragments of my memory and suggest an existence beyond time and space. |
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Primitive Shelf II 2019 50x62 inch oil on canvas |
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Primitive XV 2019 48x48 inch oil on canvas |
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Primitive XVI 2019 48x48 inch oil on canvas |
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| Future Primitive XIII 2019 48x60 inch oil on canvas |
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Primitive XIV 2019 50x62 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2018 16x20 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2018 16x20 inch oil on canvas |
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| Future Primitive XII 2017 50x50 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive XI 2017 50x50 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive X 2017 44x64 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive Shelf 2017 50x62 inch oil on canvas |
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| Future Primitive VIII 2017 44x64 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive IX 2017 44x64 inch oil on canvas |
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| Future Primitive VII 2017 48x48 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive VI 2017 48x48 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive V 2017 48x48 inch oil on canvas |
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| Untitled 2017 15x66 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2016 18x50 inch oil on canvas |
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| Untitled 2017 16x20 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2017 16x20 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2017 19x24 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2015 16x20 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2015 20x24 inch oil on canvas |
Untitled 2015 20x30 inch oil on canvas |
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| Future Primitive IV 2016 46x40 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive III 2016 46x40 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive II 2015 40x40 inch oil on canvas |
Future Primitive I 2015 46x40 inch oil on canvas |