COLOR BLOCK 2026 #003

Iku Harada creates computerized virtual reality spaces, with houses and parks. She then depicts scenes from that world in paint. There are trees and even a gallery with paintings exhibited. Computerized scenes are not real, without depth of the atmosphere, and are deprived of ambivalent gradation of colors caused by different lights in the real world. These are classical paintings insofar as they show virtual-reality views, but they are first created by computer. Even in her virtual world, the sun rises and shadows move with the passage of time. Harada replaces her computer-generated virtual image with a painted canvas, existing in a real world.　Recently her works encompass to three-dimensional block which are then to be drawn on the canvas again, thus creating the interlocking relationship between two- and three-dimensional world.