Shingo Shaun Yamazaki addresses interpersonal relationships within the family, notions of “home,” and the burdens that inadvertently transpose onto following generations. He creates narratives utilizing personal history as an access point, exploring the subjective nature of internalized memory. Denying the importance of the figure to reveal presence, Shingo constructs spaces often retracting information from his subjects as a form of “active forgetting. Burying information within the painted layers becomes a cathartic process for realizing these unseen “burdens.” Through these mental landscapes Shingo engages with underlying structures, embedded values, and how they intersect with personal and collective conceptions of identity.
