Robert Goodman & Hiro Sakaguchi > Hiro Sakaguchi - "Traveler's Tale" (23)

Taking an altogether different approach to a similar theme, Hiro Sakaguchi makes autobiographical work based on his bi-cultural experiences as a modern-day Japanese émigré in the United States. Drawing on his everyday experiences as an artist in Philadelphia and on a rich reserve of memories of his native Nagano, Sakaguchi infuses his often delicate, emotionally charged drawings, watercolors and acrylics with nostalgia and longing. These contrasting surroundings - tempered with a fair dose of representational imagination - often appear in tandem in his work, connected by recurring motifs such as airplanes, ships, and a lone, backpacked hiker.