Ando Yumi Solo Exhibition: Still Life in Life

Still Life in Life
Through my paintings, I depict everyday events with a particular focus on scenes related to creation, such as the workings of Purpleroom, where I am a core member, and the work I do in the studio.
This is because I consider painting to be a medium for documentation.
However, although the basis is actual scenes, the colors, shapes, and compositions all differ from reality. While various scenes from days gone by may remain as smartphone images or memories, paintings are not merely records, but are themselves a reality in progress.
In this solo exhibition, I have eliminated the figures that have frequently appeared in my works in the past and focused on depicting traces of human presence.
For example, Cluttered Desk with Laptop is a top-down composition not often seen in typical still life works, but instead depicts the video editing I usually do.
What I want to draw your attention to with this work is that the slightly angled LCD screen of a laptop is depicted within the rectangle of the canvas. This is a kind of painting within a painting, but it is also a self-reflecting reference to the editorial aspect of my painting process.

On a different note, my paintings are a jumble of complex colors and layers, like the patterns on a carpet or intricate terrain.
I view things in the context of a superplume, a geological term. A superplume is a massive, high-temperature mantle upwelling that rises from a depth of approximately 2900 km underground.
I perceive color as energy leaping out of the canvas.
Incidentally, this is based on the fact that my father, who studies earthquakes, mistakenly believed that the term Purpleroom originated from the term superplume. But perhaps that's not entirely wrong.

For me, painting is a device that allows me to simultaneously perceive both very familiar subjects and global-scale tectonic shifts.

Ando Yumi