Katsumi Hayakawa

Katsumi Hayakawa, Blue Reflection, Mixed Media, 2018; mirrored surfaces, paper

2018

Mixed media on paper, mounted on wood panel.

Mixed media on paper, mounted on wood panel.

Mixed media on paper, mounted on wood panel.

Mixed media on paper, mounted on wood panel.

We are the Earth is comprised of a photograph, acrylic paint, found objects in nature (bones, leaves, flowers, stones, crystals) and resin. The base materials for the work consist of a wooden paneled canvas that provides the platform for the adhesion of a rolled photographic canvas, a fine art photography print. The canvas print, in this case a double exposure digital photograph, is adhered to the wood using a clear acrylic varnish. Acrylic Paint is added along with the objects that I found in nature, which are all placed in a careful and meticulous fashion, finally cemented in resin. This specific piece of art was my first large scale piece of its kind, created in my studio in Brooklyn in 2019. This piece was inspired by the colors of my travels, the deserts, trees, mountains and sunsets. The human depicted is myself, it is a self-portrait captured in Great Sand Dunes...

“This series of paintings was significant for me to make. It marked the return to the studio after a year at home due to the pandemic. New iterations began to emerge (Vessels + Statu...