Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 7:00 PM -10:00 PM
Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary Street, Suite 105, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Born in 1979, Nagano Japan. Yajima is a painter using a Japanese classic technique called “Nihonga” with the theme of “Light and Shadows.”(Nihonga is a kind of painting using crushed mineral pigments mixed with a natural liquid adhesive on thick handmade paper.) Many colorful shapes are floating in her painting. These are bright light and dark shadows. “Light and Shadows” has two meanings. One is visible. The other is invisible. We can get the information from our eyes, and most of it is made of light. It is a phenomenon. Then, what are “light and shadows” which are not visible? It means two feelings everyone has in the heart. Speaking concretely, there are negative feelings and other feelings exist in memory. As for man, if anyone illuminates the inside of the heart with light, a bright portion and a dark portion will appear. Therefore, we feel pain. If we don’t feel pain, we can not feel joy. But a shadow is required in order to brighten light more. Consequently, She paints the scenery by a natural phenomenon and occasionally draws the “shadows” in the heart through the form of a house and a glass.
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