Hiro Sakaguchi

Hiro Sakaguchi, Pennsylvania

Born in Nagano Prefecture, Sakaguchi grew up in Tokyo and in his twenties came to America to pursue scholarship in the fine arts. A resident of Philadelphia since 1990, he obtained a Bachelor's degree from The University of the Arts and a Master's from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, developing a style evidently influenced by Western academia and Japanese animation in both technique and subject matter.

Sakaguchi's raw, unfinished renderings in watercolor and graphite impart a distinct sense of fleeting observation, often devoting attention to mundane subjects in a way which may invoke an aesthetic sensibility of traditional painting and poetry. At the same time, Sakaguchi creates a dreamlike, fictional atmosphere by presenting an unexpected arrangement of familiar objects. Amidst common streetscapes, buses motor along inverted roads in the sky. Planes flow in a congested stream with a lighthearted meander. A giant airship hovers over town in apparent celebration – a Final Fantasy-esque speculative fiction grounded in provocative observations of the non-fictional world. Imparting no overt praise or criticism, these dreamlike visions of speculative landscapes are given merit by a seemingly innocent mode of observation.
I depict fishing tackle and gummy worm...
Gummy worms are associated with tackle...
It is about making eye candy for viewer.....

My other works can be seen
www. Seraphingallery.com