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Jaybo monk seeks distance, whether he is going somewhere or going nowhere. He watches a nearby point, possibly looking nowhere…possibly not even looking. His apparently inexhaustible pictorial world poses questions to the audience again and again. Do the protagonists touch each other or not? Are they turned inward upon themselves or do they create a spectacle? The eye roams the canvas and finds itself in confusing spaces, wandering through a bizarre landscape, always seemingly infected with the incurable disease of modern times: Loneliness.
Jaybo monk creates hermetic …