THE END OF THE WORLD

PrizeOfficial Selection in Create (art)
ArtistShoichi Omura
CategoryNon-Professional

The title ``The End of the World'' has three meanings. First, by depicting a ruin-like space, I created a catastrophic (apocalyptic) view of the world. The second is the end of analog media (CRT television, vacuum tube radio, typewriter), and the third is the dystopian world of George Orwell's ``1984.''Today, with the development of digital media, we feel more trapped than in the 1980s when he predicted that there is no way out (wars, pandemics, natural disasters, various problems caused by the spread of information through SNS, etc.).

Bio
I was born at Sagano in Kyoto.I graduated MA Art Education in Kyoto Educational University. After working as an art teacher in high school for 11 years, I started working with my father in a trading company and pursues a carrer as an artist. My recent art works are the painting with pigments and black ink on Japanese traditional paper “washi“,and also photographs printed on “washi“.