“fukutanuki” is a piece that explores the many faces of happiness. Black and white, good and evil, self and other—seemingly separate, yet always blending and coexisting. The strange inscription on its back, and the slow spread of white across the surface, reflect a quiet kind of joy that seeps out when we hold others in our thoughts. The theme is asymmetry. Within its simple, pop-inspired expression, a gentle question begins to stir—one that each viewer may feel, but never quite name.
