different regions. I think you can make an interesting comparison between Murakami and Ozawa and Aida. They all belong to the same generation. Murakami became super successful because it matched the requirement of the time and he knew how to position himself in a certain cultural and historical context. And it was very open to the international art community by referring to Pop Art. If you compare him with Aida Makoto, Aida deals with a much more complicated artistic methods, medium and social, political themes all intertwined in the certain complexity and ambiguity in Japan. It is harder for an outsider to understand, but also harder for Japanese to make sense of because sometimes it is very extreme, and also his style is changing all the time. He could create a very dramatic painting along with very meticulous paintings, seriously political sculptures and silly videos. So he has no definable or easily understandable style. His work is multi-layered in terms of its meanings, hard to pin down. We need to make an effort to read or interpret and articulate all of these when considering his practice. That complexity is to more true of Japanese society. Japanese culture and history is not that Superflat. It is much more complicated and ambiguous and Aida represents such difficulties of Japanese society whilst also expressing individual emotion and thoughts, all preserved, traditionally. Murakami and Aida make for an interesting comparison. It takes time for an artist like Aida, to achieve a level of international recognition. In the meantime, Ozawa Tsuyoshi was in a way taking another