MAYA FUJI

Kokoro (meaning soul/heart in Japanese) is a series of paintings that address my multicultural and multinational family upbringing. This series address a blend of vulnerability, emotional intimacy, identity, and sense of displacement I experienced as a youth, alongside a sense of strength and pride I felt as someone who could bridge two cultures. My images of feminine figures are spirits of my dream space, here to tell a story about my experience of being mixed race, mixed culture, and mixed national.