FOLLOW THE SCENT

Artist: JINYA YAMAKAWA
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 145cm x 112cm [F80]
Year of Creation: 2025

$8000

FOLLOW THE SCENT

A faint scent drifts ahead, barely visible, yet impossible to ignore. It carries layered emotions—anticipation, unease, excitement—entangled in the slow rhythm of forward movement.
Progress rarely arrives in bursts; it unfolds quietly, step by step, guided more by instinct than certainty.

To follow a scent is to trust what cannot be fully seen.
It asks for belief in one’s own direction, even when the path is unclear. Those who move first leave behind traces—subtle, lingering—drawing others not through force, but through presence. Influence, here, is not declared; it is sensed.

This work reflects the tension between leading and following.
To set a path is to accept responsibility for every step taken, every trace left behind.
To follow is to surrender that agency.
Follow the Scent poses a simple question within the haze: will you choose your direction, or allow the trail of another to decide it for you?