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Ayaka UMEDA

intersect with the flow

Batik [Reactive dye on cotton]

162 x 97 cm

2024

I use a dyeing technique called wax dyeing to create motifs mainly of familiar nature.
By repeating the process of dyeing and laying down the wax, starting with the lightest color, multiple layers are eventually created within a single piece of cloth, and these appear as a single image.
The dye particles moving in the water and the layers created by a process that cannot be redone sometimes reveal a world that even I have not been able to see.
I feel that this technique has the potential to depict “true nature” without a one-dimensional view of the world.

 

This work is based on the theme of a world in which multiple elements and roots overlap and mix on a biotope-like waterfront. Water and land, air and land, water and sky, each have a binary world gap. The space is considered to be a place where different systems such as the afterlife and this world blend together to create a new world. Set on the waterfront of this forest, where multiple elements are mixed, I would like to expand the world and express it in dyed paintings by intertwining the perspectives of each creature and creature that cannot actually coexist.