Artist's Statement

“Who is this?” – I ask myself every morning, looking in the mirror. For many years, I have lived inside a cocoon of dailiness. My cocoon has exhausted and fallen apart. Only what matters left—questions that matter.

We, Homo Sapience, survived premodern, modern, and postmodern. In metamodern, we give up differences and connect. We join our efforts instead of competing. We cherish traditions and reinterpret the meaning of our individual lives and the existence of our species. We cross the liminal space. Open up to the new. Recognize that only one tool for self-knowledge is insufficient.

Cutting-edge science is my first tool. Evolutionary biology, comparative anatomy, neuroscience. The beauty of scientific knowledge is downstream from its specificity, versatility, and reproducibility.

My second tool is an accurate artistic expression. My drawings speak about what matters. Particularities distract. Graphics: white paper, black ink. Japanese calligraphy elements. Only one brush touch. Cadmium blood is all over my workplace. I am searching. Transforming. Reducing.

That is how I create sharp images of biostructures. I shove off the scientific knowledge, and following a neurographic line, I dip into our species' memory. Calligraphy reveals the gold from inside to the upside, to the paper. This gold, like the truth, belongs to everyone.

That is how I recall who we are, where we are from, and where we are going. Together with you, my spectator.