Hiya! My name is OiKLอNG, a Japanese artist based in Bangkok, Thailand since 2011.
Influenced by the city’s diverse values and its constant, restless energy, I started my artistic practice in 2020. I create colorful, densely layered works with rounded shapes and rhythmic lines, working on both murals and canvases for shops, homes, galleries and pop-up events.
At the core of my practice is a tension I feel as a human being: I know I can never completely escape a human- or self-centered way of seeing the world,
yet I still want to believe in “a flat plain of the heart with no borders, no walls, and no hierarchy of values.”
Through recurring motifs such as “Muping,” a baby orangutan with sleepy eyes, I paint the fragile hope that certainly exists even within a heavy, chaotic and overloaded world.
