KAPPA (河童) Painting

I AM OBSESSED WITH COMBINING AND CONTRASTING ANCIENT CLASSICAL PAINTING TECHNIQUES WITH MODERN CONCEPTS. I continue to present contemporary art works focusing on "Art and Literature." Literature is a constant inspiration in my work. My main medium is Egg Tempera which is one of the oldest western painting techniques. Egg Tempera is mixing powder color pigments with egg yok. Egg yolk works as a glue to stick pigments on a board. In my new series of new egg tempera paintings are inspired from six stories of Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, brings us clear- eyed glimpses of human behavior. In this series I am expressing the mental scenery I see in my head when I read Akutagawa's short stories. I imagined six of his short stories as six TV episodes found on a lost VHS tape like from a nostalgic dream. Because I grew up in Japan in 80's. It places in life for me to attach my own nostalgia with reading Akutagawa in elementary school in Japan.