“Yasuo Kuniyoshi was always very concerned about layers of everything consistent with layers of meaning between the ostensible subject matter of the painting and what might be the actual content.”

The Aesthetic of the Ordinary

What is the aesthetic of the ordinary? The desire to capture something small, fleeting, or overlooked, that reveals something larger, intangible and significant.
This seventeenth-century woman seems so completely connected with her surroundings and the present moment that a very ordinary scene begins to be elevated to a whole new level.