Maoka Ueda

“I studied art & design in London for 5 years at the Foundation Course at the University of the Arts London and the Graphic Design and Communication Department at Chelsea College of Arts.

The mandala works in the character “Wonky Tunes” series are a series created in the process of visualizing and treating the fears of that time with a pattern like a line spreading all over the wall, which suddenly came into view due to shock while studying in London.

By connecting the curved lines of the golden ratio based on a certain law, they become parts of the character, etc., and when viewed closely, the spiral connected by that golden ratio is a Fibonacci structure seen in the spiral structure of the DNA of living organisms such as plants (clearly seen in the spiral structure of pine cones and sunflower seeds) and humans.”