Yuki Hatazawa

Yuki hatazawa: "My art is the visualization of my hidden emotions. These emotions are not only necessarily positive ones. I have great fear for the outer world, jealousy for other people, sad memories and individual complexes. I think the combination of these chaotic emotions is myself. However, it is painful for me to see my ugly parts. Thus I try to separate these negative emotions from myself. Because I also felt embarrassed to show the ugly side of my emotion to people. I take a nicer looking mask for the outside world and even lose sight of my real feeling. However, my hidden emotions cannot cease to exist, and it suddenly appears under the inspiration of life. When I feel touched by people, I realized I have large feelings and view of the outer world. My emotions transform and propagate while they retire into myself. They combine with imagination and form symbolic motives. These motives construct my emotional world as a picture. My work is mainly two-dimensional, in black and white, because the simple colors can make a clear picture of what kind of things I have in my deep emotions. I made drawing and this has developed into painting, printmaking, and especially lithography. Beginning from my own emotions I create an image that is fleshed out with irony and humor. Thus I can accept my negative side. My theme is how I accept the outer world with a positive view, under human depression and a problem of communication. Instead of cutting off the ugly part of life, I would like to change those things into a more wealthy meaning for my world. Through this process, I realize the meaning of two worlds between which I necessarily spend my life, like day and night, good and bad, and me and other people. Our world has gigantic problems with miscommunication between different cultures. Thus I just keep expressing my small emotional world for other people as an artist".