About Artist

Statement:

Art Style: 

With a hint of magic and miracles within limitless imagination of a free spirit, our pop and dreamy, surrealistic and fantastical symbolic paintings reflect the pure love and joy of one’s inner consciousness, like a child’s heart, all intricately hand-painted with either acrylic or oil paint. 

Inspired by nature and life as a gift with a series of miraculous moments and encounters, most of our artworks are collaborative efforts between two of us – identical twins with opposite characters like Ying and Yang that bring different elements unified in harmony and balance onto canvases.

Every canvas is a dynamic cinema with joyful yet meaningful and philosophical storytelling plots of life lessons – a fusion of our courageous real life stories with mythology and folklore.

Our storytelling artworks are a culmination of countless epiphanic and theophanic moments of our lifelong spiritual pilgrimage that present fragments of the memories of our soul that were collected everywhere in the world during our soul-searching journey.

We aim to make the invisible yet most essential aspects of life felt to the heart or visible through the symbolic visual language and atmosphere we create in our artworks, by ensouling unique and adventurous stories with universal perspectives that we have gained from our eccentric life experiences and encounters within our ongoing lifelong spiritual journey. 

We immerse viewers into the mystical spiritual realm by adding a feeling of interconnectedness of the universe by visually expressing synchronicities and serendipity – meaningful coincidences that appear connected or related between events or matters, by the use of symbols, colors, storytelling, etc. Our art is like a riddle or mystery of the universe for viewers to explore. 

Dynamic motion and flow of emotions  are added by applying our imaginative sense when creating magical characters,  breathing life and emotions into them. Moreover, a tranquil sense of stillness and calmness is added by often embedding sacred geometrical symbols and painting balanced symbolic landscapes, plants and scenery of the natural world. 

Messengers of Mother Earth:

Enlightened by the divinity in nature and unconditional love we constantly receive from Mother Earth, we create art to express universal love, the most powerful energy in the world and the source of everything in the universe that connects us all. 

Peace, Love, Freedom and Truth are the main themes of our artworks, hoping to heal, awaken, and liberate the souls of ours and others.

Through channeling with Earth and dialogue with nature and spiritual realm, we hope to convey the message of divine love from Earth to pass on to one another and future generations – to live in harmony with nature and with each other with love, respect, and kindness, as we are all interconnected interdependently.

【Biography】

MinSen (Mina & Sena) is an identical twin duo of self-taught  contemporary painters, peace activists and world adventurers. 

Born and raised in Tokyo and Kita-Karuizawa Japan with Korean roots, they are currently based in their atelier in Kita-Karuizawa Japan and creating and privately showcasing their works there. 

Since middle school, they have lived in places such as Switzerland, Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States.

From a young age, they loved  creating and studied art in a boarding high school in Switzerland.

However, they took an opposite path to explore the world from a business perspective first: Sena working for a financial company Goldman Sachs based in Hong Kong and Mina working for Airline company AirAsia based in Tokyo by both doing office works. 

While exploring the world during their soul-searching and self-discovery  journey , Minsen reconnected to their true selves and  re-discovered their dream, passion and mission and evolved into artists.

In pursuit of truth and enlightenment, occasionally they go on an adventurous spiritual journey with a one way ticket where their souls are called to visit, intuitively following the fragments of the truth collected in every destination in the world. 

For 1 year from October 2023 to October 2024, they were on a pilgrimage to the Middle East and France: Cyprus, Egypt, Jerusalem, and Paris, having a nomadic lifestyle: setting up temporary small ateliers from place to place for creation – diving deeper into the field of theology, learning more about the essence of religions and coexistence with God in the meantime.

During our 7 months stay in Jerusalem, we engaged with religious practices such as praying, meditating and going to churches, shrines and mosques, we had theophanic experiences to encounter the Holy Spirit. Currently, we are still developing and deepening intimate connections with God and nature back in Japan. 

Through art creation, they aim to provoke the imagination of others and co-create the peaceful and harmonious world without war and violence.