Red Fuji 2018
Red Fuji
2018- Mixed Media on Wood- 100*70 cm
2018- Mixed Media on Wood- 100*70 cm
Statement: For many years, Fuji Mountain has inspired various artists, including Hokusai, who is the creator of Fuji Red. There is a legend in relation to this mountain which shows that the goddess of eternity and immortality lives at the top of Fuji Mountain, which is why this mountain is always a mystery for the people of the Far East. In this work, I used my mother`s old Burda papers for Red Fuji, which belongs to the era that most of the women and girls were able to sew their clothes by reading such complex patterns, and this was also part of the customs. In the past decades, the people have abandoned many abilities because of their life constraints, even one which they were specialized in. The new Fuji Mountain is a metaphorical symbol of these forgotten abandoned abilities. Here I put my mother`s old Burda papers in Fuji Red, exactly where the goddess of elixir and immortality lives.
