Aggregate

After traveling the world from Bamako to Hanoi and living in the multicultural social extreme of New York City, I increasingly see truth and beauty as aggregated small pieces.

I use squares, dots and shapes of many colors to represent people. A myriad of hues and tones go beyond ethnicity to reflect the full spectrum of our different feelings, circumstances and experiences.

No truth or beauty comes in one color. Feelings have sizes, temperatures and colors. Each painting in the “Aggregate” series attempts to tap into as many of these variations as possible, pursuing the beauty of universal co-existence.

--Tomo Mori