Where is the identity of the woman descended from Okinawa when she
perceives gestures and thoughts in the unconscious that do not fit with the
country she is in? But perhaps they are of customs passed from mother to
daughter for a long time that connects this line between ancestors of the
Okinawan people and the present in Brazil. Where does the discovery of its
beauty go when it is not identified in the place it lives, nor in the books it
reads?
That is why this painting is made on jeans with the
bleaching technique, using bleach instead of paint so that this drawing of
Hajichi’s hands appears as fragments, as remnants, at the same time that erases
the blue color of the denim.
It was cut to pieces in an
unconscious gesture, then it was turned into demountable clothes when these
pieces are joined with Excavation: Identity and Ancestry painting (artwork also
applied to this prize).