I was originally drawn to this
portrait because of its daunting very encrypted imagery. I found myself
constantly scrolling back to it so I knew it was the piece I should write
about. There was instantly a sense of torture and struggle to the piece that I
myself could feel in the pits of my stomach as I stared. When reading whom the
piece was on I found that Fujinami had relayed her personal feelings for the
piece very well to the viewer, since she wanted the piece to she the inner
struggle of her friend, Aki, who was also a contemporary Japanese woman artist.
Aki though unlike Fujinami chose to be wed in a very traditional Japanese manner
and in that way lost a lot of her freedoms in her artwork and personal career
as an artist. Fujinami wanted her piece to show Aki’s inner turmoil. “On the
surface there was love and calmness, cooperation and harmony, but underneath
that I saw complex layers of ambivalence and struggle between love and
irritation, calm and impatience, passion and resignation.” Fujinami not only takes influence from
close personal friends and family but also from strangers, books, mythology,
world news, and American and British TV shows. She also works in a variety of
strange and challenging media’s and surfaces, such as fresco, etching, copper
tempera, painting on clear film or mirror and many more. She has developed a
very in-depth process of dealing with these difficult materials making her work
very difficult and very involved to produce and yet her style is so soft that
it seems nearly effortless to take in. This all in all making Fujinami a fascinating
and very endearing artist.
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