Yebin Lim

-This artist combines different visual elements to create messages. What do you think this one means?

Tetsuya Ishida have created alot of surreal works with mostly shows isolation, anxiety, and crisis of identity. I think this photo maybe shows the social expectation. I think like that because many people mostly the parents, decides what is a good career, and rejects the career that their children want to be and not only it happenes in the wealthy family, even the people who has a poor life. Which is why i think the two kids are the victims of social expectation and the buildings are showing it not only happens with the people who has financial support.

 

-The mood is often dark, why do you think that is?

Tetsuya Ishida's works are all mostly dark-themed. I think he draws them like that because of all the social expectation and hardships. It is said that he had hard time with his childhood life due to his parents and school principal pressuring him to become a teacher or a chemist, which most are struggling right now. So i think by making his art dark. it expresses the pain and suffering that those have cause their precious ones.

 

-If his works work for a psychological analysis, how would you interpret these?

If his works work for a psychological analysis, i would interpret these as a simpton of anxiety and depression of some sort. I say this because I have watched some documentary abut depression and for those people who has depression seems to draw their painting in a very dark themed and most of them put some surrealism to it and include themselves in it as the victim, and from the possibility that the face of the painting is the artist itself (which he denies but i think it's not true) it might be a simpton of anxiety and depression.