“Misty Images of Japan” painting series inspired by photographs documenting Japanese everyday l

“Misty Images of Japan” is a painting series inspired by photographs documenting Japanese everyday life and ritual. I am interested in the moment when an image ceases to be a record of fact and becomes a memory—blurred, filtered by cultural and personal distance.
The blurring here is not a formal effect, but a metaphor for viewing from the outside—an attempt to capture a tradition that remains simultaneously present and not fully accessible.
These paintings are about memory, about looking, and about the boundary between document and internal representation.