For Kadokura Naoko it is important to capture the very moment of sad emotions. Her heart is touched by the anxiety and madness during the crisis between childhood and adulthood, by life-force and lived feelings as well as the impudence to survive, and constantly goes on drawing this theme. The persons in the pictures that are reduced to faces are young girls that have parted from their friends or boyfriends. They are lonely figures who are taken aback and have dreadful facial expressions. The artist brings the Japanese characteristics of black hair and black pupils in the technique of oil painting with charcoal on the canvas, and because of the installation on a white background, at the first glance those works seem like monochrome pictures. The sensual and slightly opened lips are dyed in pink color and the viewer is taken aback by the female shapes and the strong eye-lines. Male observers may be enchanted, while female observers may express their disgust. These drawings are certainly affectionate for everyone.
The main issue of Wu, Yung-Chieh artistic work is to face the lightness of human lives .In this era , in which both of knowledge and memories are growing up with a losing tempo, we believe that we will make our lives more significant than yesterday. However, the meanings of our lives have become weaker and weaker constantly in the process, on which is the way toward the ideal future. ¡§Drift...¡¨, what I name the state of human beings who stuff violently and vomit completely, is not to describe how heavy the human lives are, but to describe the lightness with the politest attitude accompanying the purest soul after vomiting completely. Painting is the most part of my work. Besides , I like to collage images because the images collaged are more imaginative than normal ones. The experience of imagination is just like playing a paper doll. Spectators can obtain interests or creative ideals from ambiguous images so that the range of imagination will be expanded.