This piece is more for myself than anything else. As you might have noticed from my other drawings and paintings, I tend to be a perfectionist. This constant pursuit of perfection sometimes prevents me from creating art because there's always a voice in my head saying, "This isn’t art" or "This isn’t good enough." I love the precision of realistic portraiture, but it often pressures me to make everything flawless, which discourages me from creating art at all.
With this piece, I decided to let go of perfection. It's not about achieving flawless execution, it's about expressing my imagination. I took a photo of a father riding a bike with his daughter in Tokyo at the Shibuya crossing, where a sign reading "Perfect Days" caught my eye. I felt it was the perfect inspiration for my imperfect piece. I titled it "Pearls of the Mundane" as a reminder to myself that life is good without the need for constant self-imposed expectations or the pursuit of perfection, whether in life or art. What is perfection, anyway? We should appreciate every moment, even if it's not perfect, because it can be perfectly imperfect.
