3 Cowboys, 3 different stories, 2009
Hiroyuki Nakamura
Artist Statement
“My work takes place in the imaginary proscenium of the Great American West, a place where past mythologies meet with present realities in unknown and often unacknowledged ways. My work is a quest into this unknown – a modern day expedition to discover what previous settlers have done and how to recreate old mythologies for present and future settlers. The cowboys in my work are, like myself, outsiders without any definite home, co-existing with the old and the new like the east and west bends of the Mississippi River.”
Hiro Nakamura
- 3 Cowboys, 3 different stories, 2009
- A little tragedy at home on the range, 2009
Artist Statement
“My work takes place in the imaginary proscenium of the Great American West, a place where past mythologies meet with present realities in unknown and often unacknowledged ways. My work is a quest into this unknown – a modern day expedition to discover what previous settlers have done and how to recreate old mythologies for present and future settlers. The cowboys in my work are, like myself, outsiders without any definite home, co-existing with the old and the new like the east and west bends of the Mississippi River.”
Hiro Nakamura