Portraits of Kerupa Flow Unveiled Exhibit

The "Portraits of Kerupa Flow Unveiled" Exhibit is the September and October exhibit for Gallery 24. I met, artist Kerupa Flow, at the Raglan Shire Art Exhibit a few months ago.  I was caught by her portraits. They were not only portraits but each face had a story. With the use of a computer she is able capture the expressions of each person.

So come and visit Kerupa's exhibits and be involved in the stories of her portraits . . .Click here to teleport to the gallery - Gallery 24

Following is an artist statement and an interview . . .

*About Me*

I am a Japanese artist.  The art you see here was made on a computer with a pen tablet.  

SL allows me to display my art in its purest form.  Digital data is revealed via graphic pixels.  SL helps make my art come alive, makes it real, even more than in RL life, because to show it there I would have to transform it, by printing it out or posting on the web.  Here I can upload and it is a real life experience inside SL.  I find that so exciting!

*My Creative Process*

I start always with the human form, but it is not any real person.  Beginning with a simple sketch of a face or torso, I work with it until the simple transforms itself  into something that makes sense.  

It is like a long dialogue with an uncertain, unclear existence.  Only when finished does the work reveal to me what I wanted to express.  

It is not the most efficient way  but this is how I love to work.  This arduous process - taking the time to dialogue with, and let the work reveal its message to me - is like having a long, heartfelt talk with a very dear friend.  I hope my art spends gives you the same kind of feeling.

Gallery 24, second floor

The Interview

What inspires you to draw?

(not same all the time but mostly like this)

The first step is mostly making a doodle at random.  I don't know why but I feel I'd like to progress one of it.

If I still have some interest to what I've draw,  I would continue it to describing to become what I want to see

Did you have any formal art education or were you self-taught?

Of course, by the school education to the high school, I took an art class properly! Oh, may be it is usually said that this is self-taught.)

Who was your influences for you to pursue art? Like your parents, maybe a grandparent?

My mother did an oil painting in her youth. And she took me to art exhibits when I was a little girl.

What is your process? How do you start out? With a sketch on paper then an upload to the computer?

From the beginning, I draw using a stylus of pen tablet on a canvas of Corel Painter.

And at the same time, searching a material which most fit to my feeling.

Gallery 24, third floor

Which one is your favorite piece and why?

“Boy” or  “Shonen-kyuri” in Japanese.

He is curious about everything and I want to be like him.

What was the thought behind "Boy/syonen-kyuri"? Did you use a model, or a photography, or from your imagination?

No model, no photo, just straight from my imagination, but I used a mirror when I described his arm.

In your series of drawings of "Finding Her Way" what inspired you to develop the drawings as they are?

I think that it is a sense of incongruity. 

It goes like this,

I feel she is something different. So I ask her "How do you actually feel it?" or maybe, 

I can say in this way, "I became her and looked at her in the mirror"

This process was totally like conversation. I was able to follow the process by the change of the picture. I thought that it was interesting to show the process.

Gallery 24, First Floor - "Finding Her Way" and "Boy"

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