Oil, Canvas
225 × 800 mm
9 × 32 in
Unique
I can’t eat food with unnaturally flashy colors, but this painting was inspired by a childhood memory: I once saw ants swarming over a dropped scoop of Baskin-Robbins’ “Popping Shower,” and I remember finding it strangely fascinating.
Watching the ants—eating anything that seemed edible without hesitation, whether it was an insect carcass, an artificially colored food made by humans, or some mysterious unknown object—felt to me like an incredibly sincere, neutral attitude.
The power lines appear as a symbol of my personal “original landscape,” shaped by growing up in the city. The silhouette of a solitary house is another motif I draw repeatedly, as an image of a scene I longed for—something I couldn’t find in the urban environment.
The subtitle text was sampled from the 1987 film Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs.
