Futago
Digital Print
A popular television series. “Hajimete no otsukai�?(a rough translation being ‘My first errand’)
follows the adventures of young children as they embark on their first errand, alone.
In Japan, when children turn three or four they are often sent on an errand by their parents to go grocery shopping by themselves for the first time, preparing them for the years ahead in which they will have to walk to and from school everyday. This, once being a rite of passage, is now less common following the recent rise in kidnaps and murders of young children in Japan.
The program itself is extremely elaborate, the camera operators have cameras disguised in briefcases, baskets, hats, etc and will follow these children on their successful or unsuccessful missions. Often children lose their way, buy the wrong items, fall asleep, wander aimlessly while talking to themselves or get side-tracked by other more interesting adventures, such as playgrounds or building snowmen.
The twins, ‘futago’ in Japanese, depicted in this work were the protagonists in one such episode of “Hajimete no otsukai’. The two little girls “Shuna�? and “Hina�? dressed the same, finished each others sentences and seemed even to walk in unison until one point at which they reached a fork in the road, one turned left, the other right and they then spent the next 30 mins arguing over which direction they both thought was the right way. They returned home crying, but after being consoled by their mother, they then set off again and returned victorious but with far too many cakes than were on the list.
Futago belongs to the following groups:
Japanfluence and Vector Goodness Lounge
Scott Robinson
I`m absoloutely in love with all your work…
Reminds me a little of Silvia Ji, but you`ve got something all of your own here, Truely great works.
Anneli
Such a coincidence – a friend just this morning gave me the card to your “Rat Daughter, Chocolate Geisha” exhibition at Kazari (450 Malvern Rd, Prahran for all interested). Great to see your work on RedBubble!
Bridget a'Beckett
Innocent girl – your work is beautiful. I love it – please add more!!
Lindsay Blamey
Love your style!!
StephenH
A delightful work, with an interesting story behind it.
kookylane
gorgeous!! love your style, great website too _
AnnH
My son loves this art work and I note there is no buy wall art tag. Is it not for sale? My son id the Stephen H above and I would like to buy it for his birthday.
Belinda Leopold
Your work is just SOOOOOO good-and your descriptive details-unreal.
davoid
I enjoyed your details explanation. I would like to watch that TV show.
Great images.
Firedrake
Hey, I saw this in ‘Small Works’ at Brunswick St Gallery a couple of months ago – I had a few pieces in the show too. I loved your work! It was in a great place too just as you walked in.
Awesome!
innocentgirl
Hey Everybody! Thank you so much for your beautiful comments! This work, and others, is now hanging in a small bar called Ume Nomiya on Gertrude St in Melbourne if you want to see it ‘in the flesh’!
Hiroko
This is beautiful, I really love this one!
innocentgirl
Hiroko – thank you, these girls were so cute to watch on TV.
jingjing
Oooooh, i love this. Dunnowhy didn’t see it before!
innocentgirl
jingjing – thanks, they sneak up on you, my works can be sneaky and mysterious like that ;-)
Jing3011
Fun image. I really like this.
coffeetea
how how sweet :)
amberafternoon
Very cute! Lovely image!
BigFatRobot
congrats again ms frontpage lady!
marieancolie
Fortunatelly I discover this beautiful work in the front page .
I had to stop and open it.
Excellent, very excellent, and I’m very interested in the description too.
kimbaross
Another brilliant work. I love this.
tambatoys
Still one of most favourite pics on RB, wish I could buy a card :(
Why can’t I! Innocentgirl
tricads
sensacional!!!
-:)
willd
make this a tshirt and i promise i will buy it…...love it
innocentgirl
jing3011 – ta!
coffeetea – you should have seen the actual children, such cuties!
Wanda Edwards – thanks!
Mike Hepburn – yeah! I’ve been away from Redbubble for a couple of days and suddenly I have a bunch more friends thanks to the front page action, nice!
Marieancolie – Thank you!
Kimbaross – well, thank you!
tambatoys – thank you once again and I did replace the image however it still won’t work as a card???..... will try again… third time lucky maybe!
Tricads – thank you so much.
Will Driscoll – well, I might just do that! Actually I was about to upload some more images, exclusively for t’s, this coming week but I might just add this as well!
tambatoys
YAY buying now…...
Becc Orszag
i love the collage effect, the dark feeling behind the beauty, gorgeous, real unique.
Bridgett Ferguson
love your work!! ;)
KEITH R. WILL...
nice
jemimalovesbigted
you are sooooo good!
Amanda Burns-E...
This is really interesting…love the mixture of flat, with more rendering…very eye catching!
lwnski
cool. nice bold images.