GOKITA TOMOO | Mrs. Drunko

signed and titled in English and dated 2006 on the reverse

ATM Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

I am presuming that to deform the human face might be a reaction against my practice of depicting them like crazy when I was young. Probably, I have become tired of depicting faces. Also, I have loved the masked wrestlers of the Mexican Lucha libre and those masks in Africa all this time, and a kind of transformational desire “to hide a face and to become a different character”, which can be symbolized in those masks, may have affected my work. I suppose there exists a certain ghoulish curiosity towards monsters and deformities, too. - Gokita Tomoo