Lot Essay
Beneath the windmills was always an incredible world (Lot 2519), For a second she saw from the window (Lot 2520) and She walked with a web of light and darkness (Lot 2518) are Aya Takano's small artworks drawn in 2007. By leaving the periphery of the scenery incomplete, Aya creates a room for imagination and, in doing so, directs the observer's gaze to search for the unknown. The girl in the painting, who is ignorant of her nudity, wanders off in an undefined space with some bizarre species. As Kenneth Clark describes in The Nude, "there are other branches of human experience of which the naked body provides a vivid reminder-harmony, energy, ecstasy, humility, pathos." Apart from recalling such experiences, Aya also attempts to offer a pure, profound, and almost wild, journey of imagination through the slim juvenile body figure. With her brush, Aya unleashes the chains of morality and logic. The girl in her painting invites her viewer to defy gravity and fly freely in this unknown dimension, sharing this outlasting moment of pleasure.