Paintings in the Far East have had great respect for nature with pure conception. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, we now think that we need representation by the artist who is close to humans with life and death, close to nature coexisting with humans as our hometown, rather than the artist who is close to society.

Miki Sato creates paintings in the motif of humans, in Yamagata which has many mountains. Sato chooses the image from movies or photos, makes drawings many times on the paper on which the existing image is printed, considers the drawings, and creates oil painting as tableau. So she deconstructs and reconstructs the existing image, while adding stain, blurring, or distortion in the drawings, and recreates it. “My drawings are completed at the moment I feel . The process of oil painting is an act of acquiring the factors to remember spiritual sense”, she said. It is as if she returned toward a natural and holy act of humans.

At Yoshimi Arts, Miki Sato held two solo exhibitions, “Mountain Messenger” in 2010 and “1 breath, 2 contact“ in 2011, for pursuing true reality of human existence. And she presented her works energetically with the thought that it is necessary to pursue the origin of humans, at group exhibitions and art fairs in 2012 as well. "STRUCTURE/COSMOS", the 3rd solo exhibition at Yoshimi Arts, will be constructed by her new paintings having the further development of her thought.