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ARTIST STATEMENT

 

My work reflects my everyday life,

not like a mirror does,

but like the surface of a ripping pond.

 

My art is based on my interest in human behavior: gestures, actions, and habits that derive from conscious and unconscious states of mind. I was born and raised on the fringe of Tokyo, Japan where nature and urban city culture merged with no clear boundaries and coexisted. I’ve been intrigued since childhood by humans as unique creatures that live and die and have an imagination, and make creations. To me, a window is a symbol of human nature. There are many overtones, personal dialogues and symbols within my paintings. I’ve developed my own visual language to express these aspects, and I am still searching for ways to improve it in order to visually express them. My dream is to make work that is sensual and psychic, affecting the mind, emotions, beliefs, dreams, imaginations of viewers. I believe visual art is the most powerful language and a place of realization to humankind. And it can be a place of realization.

 

By observing society and depicting human nature at a distance, my goal is to deliver perspectives on things that are relatively unknown, unrealized, hidden, unspoken, prohibited, or forgotten, but are nevertheless present within everyday life – if love is the essence of life, life is the essence of my art.  In the merging boundaryless environment of city and nature and odd boundaries between people, I grew up believing in pluralism, or something close to the idea of "being between and both", and the idea "everything is connected to everything else". My act of creating art is to re-examine and explore the ideas I believe in, and I begin it from the closest places around me and also deep inside myself, in order to explore societies, human nature, and the universe, which are supposed to be all connected.

 

​Lastly, as a Japanese person who grew up in Japan in a Japanese family, surrounded by only Japanese people – as someone whose life was once in one's motherland, I would like to keep creating as a Japanese artist for the rest of my life. And hopefully I can share the great things I received there to the people who encounter me or my work.

–Natsumi Goldfish 2026

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