YUICHI HIRAKOIt is the modern urbanized human beings own relationship with the wild nature, which is central to Hirako's artistic work. In a exuberant dream world where human life intermarriage with the primeval forest, Hirako identifies with both humor and insight the state of the civilization.Yuichi Hirako's universe is a world of hybrids, where figures alternate between human state and growing plants, and the realm of plants is an all dominating explosive power.  Animated brushwork and pulsating coloring forms a world where the boundaries between culture and nature, man and plants and indoors/outdoors are non-existent. In the art of Hirako it is not only nature and man that meet but also Western and Eastern notions. In Japan plants have earlier been given a godlike status, a phenomenon called Shinboku. In Western myths and fairy tales the wood and wild nature have been associated with quite other meanings; this is the habitat of witches, trolls and other horrific creatures. Hirako's forests contain the holy and magical as well as the gloomy and threatening; this artist uses equally sized portions of light and dark colours. Yuichi Hirako (b. 1982 in Okayama, Japan) graduated from Wimbledon Col-lege of Art in London in 2005. He now lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Since his graduation he has exhibited at national as well as international venues including; Space K Seoul (2023), Nerima Art Museum (2022) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) in Japan, Museum of Con-temporary Art in Tokyo, The Museum of Kyoto, Temporary Contemporary in London. He has received several art prizes from which could be mentioned VOCA 2013 (Vision of Contemporary Art), Tokyo Wonderwall Prize 2010 and Shell Art Award 2009.