For Hawaii-based artist Kris GotoTake a desirous for a spam musubi while surfing.
“You get so hungry,” a 27-year-old told The Huffington Post, “but we don’t wish to leave since a roller is too good. What we consider would be fun is eating spam musubi while you’re surfing.”
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
“My roller art,” Goto said, “originates from what we would like to do or what we consider would be fun,” she says, adding that she likes to share relatable personal problems and feelings in her art. “I suffer when people can totally describe to what they see. And they mount there articulate about how they totally did this, or they contend to a friend, ‘That is so you!’”
Take, for instance, a maze many Hawaii locals feel when a roller is up, though they have to work:
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
Goto credits her dainty though absolute character with her childhood in both Japan and New Zealand. She was desirous by a characters in manga (Japanese cartoons) and a perplexing tattoo art of Maori culture.
In high school, she says, her continuous doodling even gained recognition as a form of proxy tattoos. “At each lunch and recess,” she added, “I was sketch on people for a nickel or 10 cents.”
After relocating with her family to Hawaii in 2006, her work now focuses roughly exclusively on Hawaiian enlightenment and surfing, including a prodigy of being in a tub of a call or a consistent wipeouts surfers have to continue to master new skills. Surfers and non-surfers alike, however, can relate to a challenges, triumphs and small joys in Goto’s work.
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
A print posted by Kris Goto (@kgotoart)
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