The impressiveness of Sota Sakuma’s works lies in the combination of poetic art with elaborate details and perfect handwork. On the canvases, the artist often emphasizes the importance of contradictions that enrich his work, also working with humour and tension in a distinctive way. In Sota Sakuma’s paintings, the distinctions between the real and the ideal, the immanent and the transcendent, the material and the symbolic are all blurred. A loophole of truth opens up in their place between the work and the viewer, as well as the joy of pure painting and the uniqueness of representation. The viewer co-experiences, listens, reads between the lines, and uncovers the signs of signs and symbols that the artist’s works are full of.