Product type:
Original Artwork
Paper collage
70 × 100 cm
2025
From the series: “The Backseat Gaze.” The Backseat Gaze is an exploration of perspective, memory, and the restless anticipation of the journey. In a car, the driver’s focus is fixed on the road, while the passenger in the back is free to dream. To “gaze from the backseat” is to exist in a state of pure observation—where the world is not a map, but a sequence of textures, colors, and motion-blurred forms rushing past the glass.
This series of five layered paper collages was inspired by the film Drift, which begins with a family’s urgent midnight escape from the city. As an artist deeply connected to board sports, I feel a strong affinity with this pursuit of a lifestyle defined by flow and motion. These works capture the “in-between” moments where that lifestyle begins: in the car, on the way to the water, watching the world shift through a window.
By physically layering paper, I have constructed these memories to mirror the sensation of a long road trip—a collection of fragmented moments that ultimately coalesce into a life-changing arrival.
The journey begins in darkness. This work captures the vibrant, electric glow of the city left behind in the middle of the night. Seen through glass, the neon lights blur into a sea of color, marking the fateful moment in which the family flees toward a new future.
