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Tell me about the origins of your Sunrise from a Small Window series in April 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown in New York, the main idea behind it and why you use The New York Times front cover as your canvas. I was stuck in my small studio apartment in Brooklyn. Every day, absorbing the bad news, I wondered how I could adapt to this new normal without feeling overwhelmed? Some days passed and I realised that from the small windows of my studio, I could not hear the sounds of honking cars or people shouting. I could hear the birds chirping energetically and the sound of wind in the trees, and I looked up and saw the bright sky, beautiful as ever despite the changed world beneath it. I was I was intrigued by the contrast between the chaos in the world and stunning sunrises every day. I started to capture the moment in the newspaper, contrasting the anxiety of the news with the serenity of the sky, creating a record of my new normal.
SERBIA, 3 May 2023. A seventh-grade student carried out a mass shooting at a school in Serbia, killing eight children and a security guard. Image courtesy of the artist
intrigued by the contrast between the chaos in the world and stunning sunrises every day. I started to capture the moment in the newspaper, contrasting the anxiety of the news with the serenity of the sky, creating a record of my new normal. I selected The New York Times because it’s the newspaper I read every day, and because New York City is my home. How do you capture the contrast between a serene sunrise and the day’s chaotic news and translate that into gradations of colour in a single painting? Are certain colours linked to specific types of emotions or thoughts? Colours always come from real events. For instance, the sky colour covered dark yellow when smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the skies in New York City. Or a photo I saw of a tragic wildfire event in Maui. The sunrise gradients, however, are depictions of the actual sunrise. I do not choose what colours they are; it is up to nature. What was going through your mind on the day you painted your first full-page painting on The New York Times cover on 24 May 2020? Before the event, I used to paint only a small part of the front page section, but on 24 May 2020, The New York Times dedicated the entire cover to obituaries for 100,000 people who had passed away from Covid-19. If I did as normal, I thought it would be disrespectful because I would paint over only a part of the names, so I decided to cover everything.
BUCHA, Tuesday, 5 April 2022. Bucha is a suburb of Kyiv that was a site of intense fighting early in the invasion. After Ukrainian forces repelled the Russians, direct evidence of war crimes by the Russian military was revealed, with documented episodes of civilian murder, decapitations, rape, and mass killings. Image courtesy of the artist
[L-R] Sho Shibuya 2023 acrylic on newspaper at the Unit London Gallery. INVASION, Friday, 25 February 2022. War erupts in Ukraine, as Russia batters the nation with artillery strikes. Evacuations begin. Images courtesy of the artist
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