Chincaca view of eleven eyes and the unexpected happening
Born in Tokyo in 1975.
She began mountain climbing during her university years; using this experience, she creates imaginative landscape works inspired by the great and unforgiving wilderness. Although she paints unnatural landscapes, piecing together minute details of reality that exist but cannot be captured from a distance, her encounters with nature around Los Angeles and in Finland have, strangely enough, enabled her work to attain an air of realism. She has also been taking on the challenge of venturing into other media.
Yoshida now resides in Shodoshima, Kagawa, where she creates sculptures from a drawing of the island in its entirety, based on personal field work.
2012/crayon, oilpastel, watercolor
By walking the green mountain roads in the summer, and diving in the sea in the early autumn, Kana Yoshida physically captured the pieces of Momoshima’s scenery. She connects them again and then depicts the imaginary scenery in her artwork. An invisible atmosphere and her own experience remain in the traces of crayons; depicting a side of Momoshima, never captured in a photograph before.