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Shanty Town 1923

150 cm x 150cm, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

Shanty Town, detail of intersecting rail-line paths with dense junctions and scored surface texture.
Shanty Town, segment marking historically damaged sites along mapped routes, with notations and relief.
Shanty Town, detail of intersecting rail-line paths with dense junctions and scored metal and flaking painted texture.
Shanty Town, detail of train routes, layered with ages building materials with subtle paint build-up.

Reflecting a composition guided by Tokyo’s rail network, this work further deals into the world of mapping by marking historical locations extensively damaged in the earthquake of 23. Painted shortly aster the artist's experience with the Tohoku earthquake, it rejects his anxieties about infrastructure in Tokyo at the time. 

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