Shingo Honda - Parallel

PARALLEL #8 2000 acrylic/graphite on canvas 65" x 74"

This “Parallel” series was made in downtown Los Angeles, where I lived for almost twenty years. I don’t know any of the people in these paintings. And they don’t know each other. I’ve put them in spaces where they’ve never been and where they’ve never been together. Each person lives in their own space, different from mine, different from anyone else's. They have their own reality and it’s always changing. I don’t know what they’re thinking or what they see, or where they’re going or where they’ve been. Our paths may never cross again, but in this parallel world, there’s something that we share: we’re not strangers.

Parallel #3 2000 48” x 63” acrylic/graphite on canvas