Oil, Canvas
630 × 560 mm
25.2 × 22.4 in
Unique
I depict pigeons and flies as creatures that symbolize life in the city. The drawing began from photographs of pigeons and flies that I took myself, and from there I gradually blurred the boundary between reality and imagination. As I worked, I shifted elements little by little—the pigeons’ shadows became strangely distorted, and the flies’ heads started to resemble those of cicadas.
The subtitle text was sampled from the 1987 film Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs.
