“Duality” has been a precious theme that I’ve been working around in my creation.
“Duality” indicates the idea that “there are two separate principles in every event that occurs in this world.”
“Yin and yang” and “night and day,” for instance, interact with each other rather than existing separately.
This time, I added some new elements to the ocean at night and during the daytime.
The two works encapsulate the message: to make a new event happen.
“Tide” is a phenomenon that takes place on the Earth due to the gravity of the moon and the sun. This artwork embodies the imagery of “the dark ocean flowing with sound and the moonlight faintly illuminating the ocean surface.” To place it in the image is “yin and yang,” it is “yang that gets added to yin.”
“Sea Fog” appears when the warm, moist air meets the cold sea current. This artwork encompasses the imagery of “a dense fog covering the sunlight, thus making the daytime diluted by a couple of hues.
To be situated in the image of “yin and yang,” it is “yin that covers yang.”
We all can receive countless messages from natural phenomena.
Why don’t we create with “hope” for the future where we can coexist with others in our minds?
Yoko Kitazaki was born in Kyoto and learned oil painting from an early age. She loved the layered colors of “Water Lilies” drawn by Monet, and she wanted to express the changing light. She majored in dyeing at Kyoto City University of Arts, and in the past, dyeing and oil painting were the means of expression.
With the changes in the world in 2020, she began to create abstract paintings using acrylic paints. Monet’s colors and the dyeing design still influences her expression.
Her current activities are exhibited at overseas exhibitions such as Divulgarti in Italy. The theme of her production is based on duality and contains the message of “Seeing the whole phenomenon from the viewpoint of the mind. ”As a feature of the work, she changes the smooth paints to“ movement, flow, luster, lumps, and cracks” and so on. This is due to her idea of rebonding the pigments.
