contemporary Japanese art

Yasuyo’s Lucy’s Flower Garden reimagines the 3.18-million-year-old human ancestor Lucy not through anatomy, but as a blooming afterlife—where flowers rise from deep time as symbols of memory and regeneration. Saturated colors and pulsating forms evoke a dreamlike rhythm that bridges the fossil record and the present moment.

Rather than mourning absence, the painting celebrates transformation. Lucy becomes presence—petals, pigment, pulse—revived not to explain history, but to feel through it. In Yasuyo’s hands, ancient life and contemporary imagination merge in a sensory ecology of fragility, wonder, and becoming.