Door K-2 

Yamamoto Naoaki commenced his career as an artist with portraiture. At the age of 23, he created Standing Figure (II), his own attempt at using the materials of Nihonga (modern Japanese-style painting) to express human existence. Before long, he moved away from portraits and shifted to abstract work based on stories from the Bible and mythology. This is one of his DOOR series from the 1990s. Doors connect but also separate internal and external worlds. Residing in Prague in the early ’90s, he found many discarded doors on the street, and they seemed to suggest the nature of the relationship between the human mind and body: connection, opening, blockage or exclusion. As artistic materials, doors also presented new opportunities. In this work he uses an unadorned charred wooden door, showing its badly decaying surface.
(UCHIYAMA Junko)