OZU Wataru (b.1991, Tokyo, Japan) received his MFA in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts. Deeply inspired from childhood by Yamato-e, the Rinpa school, and ukiyo-e, he weaves the Japanese philosophical aesthetics of ma—the beauty of intervals—into his practice. On canvas, ma structures...

“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”  — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse  In...

" What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer a fantastic; there is only the real." — André Breton, Founder of Surrealism  From a psychoanalytic perspective, fantasy arises from the repressed desires of the unconscious, often manifesting through images rooted in memory and...