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After years of promoting the American art scene, Compound Gallery has realized that something is missing... independent and underground Japanese artists have no voice here and we want to change that. Each time we travel to Japan, we meet more of these exceptional artists, and are impressed by their innovative, fresh ideas. At the same time, the American art scene is hungry for new and original artists to follow. It is time to expose the American audience to Japanese artworks. It is time to bring together the American art collector and the Japanese artist. This is our goal at Compound Gallery.

 
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Sayaka

Introduce yourself...
My name is Sayaka.

I work as an illustrator in Japan.

I also do a solo show once a year in Japan.

After graduating college with a degree in product design, I began working as an illustrator/designer/artist.

Describe your art...
My artwork is very much based on feeling. It is hard to describe in words.

I usually add some twist into my dream world, memory of the past, my favorite things, favorite time, loneliness, closeness, feeling of joy and create my art.

1. What are you currently working on?
It is not really a project but I would like to publish another book with the same publisher as my first book.

2. Why is art important?
I see my own world that i do not share with anyone in art. This fact gives me a power to live and calmness in the real world.

3. What do you think people walk away with after viewing your art?
How did you feel from my Art?

I don't know how people feel. Of course I have a base story in each art i create which i am the only one knows, so I understand each of my art work. But i do not know what people feel.

All I wish is people are feeling something positive from my art work.

4. How does your typical day unfold?
Either I'm working, sleeping, eating something, surfing the Net or watching a DVD. I sometimes paint.

5. What was the most significant event in your artistic life?
I would say The show at Compound gallery was most exiting one. It was the first show i have ever done outside of Japan. I really worked hard for this show.

6. What is your favorite medium and why?
I would say water color paint.

Water color paint can be used by kids, old people and it is so easy to play with.

I also have a special feeling to this medium since this is the first medium I ever desired to use when I was little.

7. What artist do you admire most?
I love all the ukiyoe painters of the Edo era.

They are so amazing. I admire them all.

During in Edo era, Japan was a self-sustained country, being isolated from all the other countries, which meant that they had very limited resources but they created so many beautiful things that people in current times, who have every possible material can't even come close to creating.

It's fascinating.

8. What are you listening to right now?
I listen to classical music especially Baroque music. I also listen to Japanese pop music, especially the band "Arashi". I love them and listen to them all the time.

9. What are your future goals in the art world?
My goal is to keep creating my artwork until I die.

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