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DESCRIPTION:<p style="padding-left: 30px\;">From the Ouchi Gallery <a href=
 "http://www.ouchigallery.com/#!gallery-ii/c21l7">website</a> :\n\n<p style
 ="padding-left: 30px\;">Having  grown up in a Shizuoka town in the shadow 
 of Mt. Fuji\, for Naoaki  Funayama\, the colossal is quotidian. The goings
  on at the foot of the  mountain can easily seem insignificant trickles in
  time\, microscopic  next to the immense. In that sense\, Funayama's local
  circumstances  strongly relate to his art\, and his gravitation toward th
 e dinosaur and  the volcano\, as subject and motif\, seems quite natural. 
 Through  painting\, he creates a bridges between his own experience and Ea
 rth's  unremembered millennia.\n\n<p style="padding-left: 30px\;">Often fo
 rgoing paleontological accuracy\, Funayama's  art re-imagines the world as
  it could have passed and blurs the lines  that place uncovered relics in 
 space and time. Cambrian Period  Hallucigenia crawl alongside&nbsp\;Jurass
 ic&nbsp\;and Cretaceous Period dinosaurs.  Colors&nbsp\;fade along some of
 &nbsp\;their bodies&nbsp\;as camouflage in the forests\,  plains\, and mou
 ntain ridges they inhabit. Human figures placed in the  foreground would h
 ardly stand out if not for the stark juxtaposition  they present. Next to 
 the striking greatness of the dinosaur or the  daunting potentiality of th
 e volcano\, they are merely members of an  audience\, onlookers to gods. S
 till\, it is exactly that&nbsp\;contrast&nbsp\;that is  most illuminating.
  It's not the missing link\, but the pursuit itself &ndash\;  to imagine w
 hat could stand in such vastness. What could hold  the&nbsp\;fossil&nbsp\;
 of the unknown.\n
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SUMMARY:X-don: Solo Exhibition of Naoaki Funayama
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