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People think that the purpose of creating art is to be able to make messages clear to other people. To tell them things they need to know.

I say no.

I don’t really have a ‘my work is about ______” sentence for my artistic concept, but a few keywords are: childhood, parenthood, concept of home, reinforced sense of control through role-playing games, importance of child’s play, and most importantly,

the idea of parents and a home does not become an issue until it is no longer present, and only when that part of our lives is missing can we truly discern it.

I believe that every human being has experienced some kind of trauma or loss, and every parent has made some kind of sacrifice, or mistake.

I know, some people are hardened. But you know what? My work is not for people like that. The same way I now have little interest for ‘First Gradism’ paintings, talking about light and shadow and colour and that sort of thing.

But seriously, am I going backwards here? How do we know when we’re moving forward, and if we’re in the right direction?

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