It has been some time since the images of flying people in the sky took up residence at the back of my head. From time to time, stimulated by seemingly trivial things I happen to see or sounds I hear, they would suddenly come forward and occupy my whole mind for a while. The motif of flying people has already appeared every so often in my work. Since I wish to be free from analysis or logical explanation, I don’t explain to myself what I paint when I work, but this time I named these people “travelers”. Sometimes it is a solo figure, sometimes they appear in numbers. They may be the strangers I pass on the journey of life, and, at the same time, each of them may be myself.　
- Atsuko Imaizumi

*image (left)
courtesy of the artist and Wada Fine Arts