I endeavour to describe something original, somehting that is built in our way of approaching the environment we live in.
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Extract of the text from publication WORTH PAINTING ( Finnish painters´ union, 2009).
artist: Haruka Kashima
WHAT MAKES A PAINTING GOOD?
Certain directness and elementariness which emanete from the basic, genetic level of human existence and penetrate our entire being through the body. Visual representation is a quintessentially physical activity. Even though a person is thinking all the time, painting also gives shape to something that is beyond thought.
WHAT DOES YOUR PAINTING REPRESENT?
The paradoxical ambiguity of the nature of homo sapiens.
WHAT IMPACT WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR WORK TO HAVE?
I hope the viewer will grasp my basic idea of the inherent ambiguity of our being. We shape our environment both as a biological species and a species immersed in ideology. The end result is inevitably surrealistic. This is what our evolution has come to. Moreover, I seek to share with the viewer the significance of the human craft that finds its expression in paintings. We have perhaps survived due to our highly developed manual skills.