Collection: Nao Nakamura
Nao Nakamura's art is done on saddle leather as opposed to on paper or canvas. For fifteen years she studied various techniques under professional artists: drawing, painting, oils, and inks, but, after her experience working in the fashion industry (and experiencing the endless cycle of producing new things only to have them be reduced to sale prices and then thrown out to make way for a new round of the next season's “latest thing”), she became frustrated. She thinks of her art as akin to tattooing one's skin; permanent, everlasting, cannot be erased, and genuine. For her, using paper or canvas is not daring enough (as that could easily be thrown away); she likes the metaphor of a tattoo and the courage it takes, to contemplate her art.
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