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Two Works Selected for "Art Olympia 2026"
I submitted two works to the international open competition "Art Olympia 2026", and both were selected. The two works I submitted are a pencil drawing and an oil painting. They differ greatly in technique and theme, but both connect to themes I have long been thinking about: "seeing", "boundaries", and "the individual and the whole". […]
Making One Work Together: How a Commissioned Painting Comes to Be
I am currently working on a commissioned painting. When I create a single work to order, there are a few important differences from when a client chooses a work that is already finished. Before I begin, I make sure the client understands these points, and only then do I proceed. Because it is analogue, an […]
A Request for "the Same Painting as That One" | Recreation Record 01
I was asked to paint "the same picture" as a work I had delivered before. A hand-painted picture can never be born the same way twice. This is a record of the three agreements we made in order to meet that hope anyway, up to the moment I began the underdrawing.
About the Lab: An Attempt to Show What Comes Before Completion
For a long time I believed a painting was something you show only at the moment it is finished. Yet before a single painting comes into being, there lies a stretch of time that no one ever sees. Meeting a motif, pausing, trying materials, failing, scraping back, layering again. A painting that looks still when […]