About me:
Hello! I’m Kioko. I am an Aggie Vizier as of Fall 2020 in the College of Architecture. I am a Christian, cinema enthusiast, avid maker and more. The gothic subculture is a big deal to me. David Lynch is my patron saint. I am a punk and goth DJ.
My Statement as an Artist:
My art is not meant to be comfortable, and is not made to be easily consumed. I give my viewers the opportunity to experience what I feel through my art in their own minds, their eyes to be enveloped by strange landscapes and anguished figures. In each of my artworks is part of my soul and a story I tell. I am a part of both counterculture and Christianity, two groups which on the surface seem so different, but are not in my lifestyle. Negotiating and engaging in both is full of discomfort and marginalization, which I discuss in the narratives of all of my art. As a living dichotomy, I have issues being all of these things as one individual. I usually communicate through flat works, where harsh lines and blocks of value come together and coexist with gradations of naturalistic values to form a contorted ghastly beauty I am proud to have created. I prefer bleak, morose, and faded hues of forgotten places and moribund things. On the other hand, some of my art is connected to the beauty of love and affections of hypothetical persons, the human intimacy I do not get to enjoy, substituted with wishful thinking and traumas. I hold fast to an idealism and sweetness sometimes out of character in my body of work. The beauty and hope I find in darkness and my psychological disfigurement is something I want to share. I want others to see that I have good intentions, despite being mentally ill and despite my unsettling renderings of unpleasant experiences and sentiments. These visions of the anarchical and confusion have a whimsy and elegance to them.