Artist Statement

"Dari Pagalan ke Motoyasu", is a documentation of artist Egn’s memories and experiences while being in Japan for a study visit in 2014. The drawings prepared refer to places like Yotsuya, Roppongi and also around the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. For this edition, Egn shares the stories based on his memories, not exactly site specific but the incidents where the very thing that happened during his visit — a lot of his thoughts and comparisons between his hometown in Sabah, Malaysia, and the places he saw in Japan. Egn came from the district of Keningau and is currently based in the state capital Kota Kinabalu, a very different environment than Japan.