Ranging Difference - Broken Shelter VII 

The word rensa (translated in the title as “ranging the difference”) is a word coined by the artist meaning something that is continuous but out of alignment. Meanwhile habo (“broken shelter”) means a building being destroyed. Everything in the composition is slanted one way or another; there are no horizontal or vertical lines that might impose order. Brown paint flows like mud, and there are poisonous colors like green and pink. Reading the title and looking at the work, the viewer gets a sense of a world in chaos. And it was in fact made at a time when several devastating events had occurred, like the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway. Nakamura Kazumi commented that in such times, painting too should discard the pretense of elegance and bring forth discomfort and rejection.
(KURAYA Mika)