Jessica Miku uses the Japanese cultural anthropological concept Hare-Ke, which harmonises the fantastical with the mundane, to produce paintings of imagined female figures within ecological fantasy. These portals of other-worldliness are used to explore notions of tenderness — in heart, body and soul. Drawing from their poetry, they create images informed visually and thematically by culture, memory, family, language, femininity, and the harmony between people and nature.
‘Purple Tombs’ was part of the exhibition Stay, Until After the Bloom with Sahana Rahman, Grace Bella and Jonathan Li at Drive-Thru (2022).