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Painting
Facial Expressions
(2019)
The facial expressions represent various emotions, such as happiness, overwhelm, jealousy, sadness and passion. The image is broken down to abstract marks to build the figure. There are colourful layers illuminates the image and enables the surface to seem to have movements. The marks reflect my emotion and trigger to interact with the viewer. Each face is cropped out and depicted on a small canvas to convey intimacy, and all relate each other, including the audience.
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Vibrancy
(2020)

Collaboration Project with Bournemouth Natural Science Society (BNSS)
Group Exhibition -Contemporary Artefact (https://practiceincontext.org/)
The work is a series of small portraits representing Takahata’s responses to the museum. People who visit and work in BNSS are depicted in ambiguous but emotional portraits, scattered to several throughout the quiet and still atmosphere of the museum. The artist injects life through her ‘explosion’ and ‘invasion’ into the building with her paintings. The intimate and anonymous images come from real observations and sketches of the people in the community thorough her connections with them. In order to share the emotional experience with the audience, some works are aligned to a poem about what Takahata felt during the observation. The work represents the overlap between the external and inner world, connecting people and emotion as a human commonality.
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Fragments of Emotion
(2020)
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Particles
(2021)
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Perceptions
(2022)
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