Mio Tahara

In your reflections on Taro Okamoto and Pablo Picasso, one senses not an anxiety of influence but rather a selective resistance, could you elaborate on how your disidentification with what you term “beauty” operates as a generative constraint within your practice, perhaps even as a kind of ethical refusal embedded in form?
That's a sharp question.
I feel like I need to change my personality.
That's because during a critique session in college, my paintings were described as "cute."
I actually prefer fantasy paintings like those of Chagall. I want to learn more about the works of Picasso and Taro Okamoto.
I want to try something new.
I used to like Renoir's bright depictions of everyday life, but now I feel a little unsatisfied with them.