Anomalia (AK10)

Chikai Ohazama

This piece is from my ANOMALIA collection (https://chikai.art/anomalia) which engages the visual language of resistance, situating the lone figure as both subject and rupture within a broader socio-cultural stream. Each composition stages a confrontation between individual agency and collective inertia—foregrounding moments of dissonance, friction, and willful divergence. From a macro perspective, the works depict bodies in motion—a choreography of conformity, a river of figures flowing in synchrony. Yet embedded within this directional mass is a single figure oriented in opposition: a deliberate interruption, an embodied refusal.

This figure moves not with the current, but through it—asserting presence in defiance of consensus. As the viewer draws closer, the surfaces begin to shift. A subtle but insistent piscine morphology emerges—scales layered in shimmering patterns, fins feathered into movement, and faint ridges suggestive of gills—textural impressions mapped across the skin. These motifs ripple over shoulders, backs, and faces like the echo of another environment, as though the act of resistance has summoned traces of evolutionary ancestry. The figure remains human, but touched by something else—as if the fight against the flow has left its mark.