Much like a hairdresser, Japanese born Naomi Okubo uses color, texture, and patterns in her paintings. They draw your eye in, and each time you look at them, you seem to find something new.
“Ive always cared about appearances. The ideas for my work come from an inferiority complex and my experiences in adolescence. As an adolescent, everyone starts to care about how other people think or their appearances.
In my personal experiences, when i changed my own image, people changed their attitude toward me. They started to concern me, and our relationship became better. I also realized the power of fashion and the fear of others watchful eyes. I have been interested in appearances ever since.
In Tokyo, Japan where I live, and other developed nations, mass media provides us not only with images of created experiences, but also images of lifestyles and ways of spending our time.
We admire these images, and adopt them to create our own images, but we are overly exposed and consume these images so much, that we become confused about what is real and what is contrived. The consequences is that we become addicted to them.
Although it seems like a personal issue, it is connected to greater problems and inconsistencies in society,
In my work I want to show my thoughts on these problems and inconsistencies taken from my personal experiences.
April 14″
