Japanese Toilet II

Japanese Toilet I and Japanese Toilet II are two large oil paintings from an ongoing series on contemporary masculinity. Painted in a gestural, abstract-figurative language, the works fold porcelain architecture and flesh into shifting contours, where line becomes touch and color holds breath. They are not illustrations of a scene so much as atmospheres of experience. Japanese Toilet I considers the first blush of arousal around an area of the body often fenced off by shame; Japanese Toilet Il turns toward the tenderness of receptive pleasure and the possibility of openness within heterosexual experience. Both paintings approach their subject with care, humor, and dignity, asking how attention can transform taboo into knowledge. The theme of borders and crossings is central. A toilet cubicle is a checkpoint between public and private selves, between performance and vulnerability. The Japanese toilet, with its choreography of cleanliness, becomes a model for tenderness: design engineered for care reframes a zone of male anatomy that society frequently renders invisible. In this sense, the paintings function like an embassy for ideas, inviting a quiet diplomacy between curiosity and taboo, between inherited codes of masculinity and the body's lived intelligence. By loosening identity scripts and dissolving anatomical fixities, Japanese Toilet I and Il open a passage from secrecy to articulation, from stigma to care, aligning the body's thresholds with the exhibition's theme of crossing and connection. They propose tenderness as a form of embodied knowledge.

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