EN
ARTWORKS
Mika Shinagawa
Traveler
Year: 2019
Materials: Wood panel, oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: H1500 W4000 mm
Location: Restaurant
Artist's Statement:
I draw pictures to contemplate things I don't understand or find difficult to resolve. While viewers may perceive my work differently based on their environment and experiences, I depict macro and micro images in children's eyes, and bees carry metaphors like colony collapse disorder. These suggest a connection between the existence of small lives and larger entities like history or the universe. For me, this signifies that each individual life holds value in itself—not as an instrument or for utilitarian purposes.
PROFILE
I paint to think about things I don’t understand or are difficult to solve. Depending on the environment and experiences of the viewer, how they feel may be different, but each artwork has its own metaphors, such as the macro and micro images in the eyes of a child, or honey bees with colony collapse disoder. They suggest the connection between the existence of small lives and the larger existences of history or the universe, meaning that to me each life itself has value, and is not about instrumentalism or utilitarianism.