——Inside and Outside, Self and Other, Manmade and Natural

Sayaka Suzuki, the artist behind this piece, searches for the boundary between two opposing forces. By continuing to create art based on this theme, she has arrived at a theory.

“The inside and outside are not perfectly separated by a wall, while things on the outside resist getting sucked inside, they end up mixing in with one another.”

After this realization, the artist placed emphasis on the ambiguity between boundaries when creating her pieces.

For this artwork, Suzuki took the concept of outside and inside that she spent many years searching for and applied it “The Inside and Outside of a Home”. This piece uses various frames such as windows, boundaries, or even a picture-in-picture effect, as a motif. The window functions to separate inside from outside, but the boundaries and picture-in-picture frame are equipped with a function that nests everything in one world together. It is an important role in expressing the view of the world.

The artist asks the spectators for one favor.

“Do not just look at the painting as a painting, but take your own surroundings that you are standing in and incorporate it into your viewing experience.”

When viewing this piece, you may feel immersed into the world of the painting. This is due to the artist’s “magic”, proof that the boundary between our world and the painting’s can be merged together.