Kaza Sano (SL)

Curatorial Rationale

Throughout my whole life for 18 years, I faced a lot of emotions which made me create my theme as “ emotions “. This theme means a lot to me because I am a guy who is very emotional, and who went through it. Emotion is what controls our body when there are no emotions, we are nothing. I thought of this when I was young, I questioned myself when I ran away from a situation of being the main player for baseball. I was nervous and did not want to make mistakes in which my emotions controlled my body to walk away from a field. Through these experiences, I’ve tried to have a strong mind that will not gonna make me go negative. Through my artwork, I hope people can recognize the meaning of it and know about emotion more.

Being a late bloomer artist, I did not have a lot of experience. I started to learn about art since grade 1 but just as a school subject which was not allowed to make something that I actually wanted. During these past two years, I was allowed to do that. I was able to make something that I wanted and I did make something that I wanted. Through these past two years, I’ve learned how to use a pallet knife, acrylic paint, clay, paper, oil paint, and yarns. While making this art I learned more techniques, and found my strong points in art and which material expresses my theme well.

First of all, “ Edvard Munch '' was the artist that influenced me. The purpose of his work is that it will express his inner thoughts, feelings, and emotions. He led me to choose my theme such as “ Emotion''. One of his best and well-known artwork, “ the scream touched me. When I looked at that I felt the man who was screaming. After looking at that artwork, I start wanting to make an artwork that makes the viewer imagine my artwork. Especially the “ a dog “ and “ we are against '' can achieve my goal successfully because they both have really deep meaning to it which a lot of people could relate and understand.

For the exhibition, I want my artwork to be separated from negative, positive emotions and the mixture of few emotions will be placed in one place. I believe that viewers will be easier to see and recognize my artwork. Through this art exhibition, I hope that my artwork will affect someone, even a little part of their lives, and rethink their feelings.