Earlier this summer, Iwasaki spent a month in Taiwan and had a wonderful and exciting time. “My work acts as my travel diary in a visual format.…crowded busy streets, heat, rain, spending time with good people like friends and family, experiencing livelihood, energy, and excitement in Taiwan. The things you see in my work are abstract and symbolic forms of things I encountered with, thought about, and felt on a specific day or during a period of time. I hope viewers can feel my excitement and experience through my work – in their own personal ways.
Rabbit and crocodiles run along with a colorful fleet of scooters? A bunch of brightly colored balloons effortlessly lifts a scooter into the sky. Vehicles line up to form the shape of a roof, whose deep blue window and yellow door represent the warmth of a beckoning home, as well as our eagerness for home after a day’s hard work.