Sadness
童話なる お山の世界 月かかる 尖りもつ身の どこかおかしく
Infomation
- Category：
- Painting
- Title：
- Sadness
- Title（original Title）：
悲しさ
- Artist：
- Hiroko Kato
- Owner：
- Hiroko Kato
- Copyright：
- Hiroko Kato
- Year：
- 2001
- Area：
- Western Pacific
- Country：
Area：Western Pacific
Country：Japan
- Location：
- National Sanatorium Suruga
Notes
A pointed element, the moon
Over a gentle mountain of the fairy-tale world
Is somehow an alien element
The forced isolation institution where the painter was resident in the past is a world that is normally an unlikely world. This normally unrealistic world is expressed as a world of fairy-tale in the painting while the crescent moon is symbolizing the painter herself. If the world of fairy-tale is gentle and round, the crescent moon, with its pointed edges, is a heterogeneous element. The painter herself who criticizes the isolation policy is also a heterogeneous element. She expresses the sorrow and satire against the very existence of a society where discrimination exists in a matter-of-fact manner. It is a painting of criticism and irony towards the leprosy isolation policy as well as to the exclusion and discrimination against people who are different.
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