The question I am addressing revolves around connections — in one sense, it hints at the Japanese idea of the ‘Red String of Fate’ — the belief that everyone is connected by an invisible red string and are destined to meet and no matter how tangled the string gets, it will never break — as well as the connection between countries, the globalisation of art and how one country can adopt another’s style while still remaining their own — the confusion or mystery of a person’s identity.
In an interview I read regarding Daehyun Kim’s work, the interviewer states ‘I enjoy the lack of coulisses in your scenery it could happen anywhere, it seems to be universal’ — I too am drawn to the concept of my work being universal and not of a particular place or person, as well as the crossing of East and West and the idea of transnational art.
In regard to what area(s) I am exploring within my work, I would like to use my interest of Japan and Eastern art to be reflected in what I make — taking hints of Japanese aesthetics, processes and ideas and applying them, while at the same time altering this to coincide with my own culture and style of art — drawings that combine Japanese visual traditions and Western modernism.