Blue Pool

Yuri Shimojo

Blue Pool

Someone told me “You are lucky to be an artist because you can reflect your fate in your art, like Frida Kahlo did.”  This was around the time when I had lost all my family in this world.  I was 29 years old.  I don’t have the courage she had.  She appealed to all as if she was a heroin in a dramatic tragedy, and always faced her fate.  The truth is that I am not able to become like her. Because I am too happy and I appreciate being happy.

–From the journals of Yuri Shimojo

 
Artist Yuri Shimojo divides her time between Tokyo, Brooklyn and the island of Maui.  View more works on her website.