望月宗生

Shusei Mochizuki paints portraits of women on the theme of "strong women," alongside dinosaurs as symbols of strength and evolution. With gender equality as a concept, the work expresses the value of femininity through a cyberpunk worldview — a dystopian future in which women live with strength, embodying the very image the artist seeks. This parallels our increasingly digital lives, suggesting that people too must update themselves as values shift. In contrast to these futuristic women, the dinosaur works depict the mighty beings of ancient times. In this turning point of history, as AI takes on logical and rational tasks, sensibility — and femininity — will be valued; the artist imagines women receiving the wisdom of evolution from dinosaurs, in the spirit of learning from the old to create the new.