Monet-Anime

2025 — ongoing

The project examines the collision between two incompatible systems of seeing: the unstable, perceptual world of Impressionism and the hyper-stylized, emotionally coded logic of anime. Monet’s vibrating atmospheres depend on embodied observation, while anime characters function as pre-formed vessels of identification shaped by digital media.

By placing these systems into the same pictorial space, the works test how contemporary subjectivity negotiates between sensory experience and mediated projection. The figures do not inhabit the landscape but confront it; they stand at the threshold where material perception meets the clarity of digital desire.

Rather than contrasting "high" and "low," the series proposes a hybrid model of attention: a state in which immersion in media images does not negate physical perception but refracts it. The paintings operate as experiments in reconstruction — attempts to assemble feeling through fragments of cultural memory, using styles often dismissed as escapist to reconsider how we now access sincerity.