Awake evokes awakening. It ruptures the stasis of the image, frozen in its capture upon a surface, and the word-image comes to life, not out of its written or spoken form, but for its sheer printed presence.
The paintings Jum Nakao conceives here are true to his work as a designer, flitting between various aesthetic traditions, mixing materials and bringing to bear the impact of rupture, of fragmentations and instability.
April 2012