Viscera Forest

Hiroaki Kano

2012
162.0×194.0㎝ oil on canvas

Comment

The theme of this work is the desire to establish new relationships on a global scale between human beings aiming for disaster recovery, peacekeeping, and environmental conservation.

The construction site depicted in the painting is an expression of concern about urban development that promotes the destruction of nature, and at the same time, it is also a symbol of maintenance, restoration, and reconstruction in order to improve human life while taking into account the relationship with nature.

In addition to representing the pain of war and death, the internal organs of the human body and animals are also motifs that evoke the treatment of diseases through dissection, surgery, and transplantation, and are symbols of the will of human beings as a community to investigate the causes of various problems of our time and find solutions to them.

I depicted natural landscapes as awe-inspiring objects that can be both a blessing and a threat to all of these human activities.