Misato Suzuki on 'And, Repeat'

In And, Repeat, Misato's paintings, starflowers appear as simplified symbols and mark-making devices, clustered into tight groupings that form dense, constellation-like arrangements. These formations bisect her color fields and geometric abstractions, creating visual rhythms that pulse across the canvas. The starflowers serve as playful yet poignant stand-ins, evoking both personal and collective memory, while blurring the boundary between the botanical and the celestial, the symbolic and the abstract.

This series, "Starflower," explores the image of floral forms and cosmic imagery. Flowers are often seen as cheerful and uplifting, and in this series, I paint them in their most simple and abstract form. Are they flowers? Are they stars? These ambiguous shapes that exist like dots coexist in space with various colors and geometric shapes. Throughout these pieces, I also wanted to bring the essence of nostalgia, the flowers representing individual memories that each person holds.

Misato Suzuki