Marina Ogai. Figurative artist
Work
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![Oil painting The Encounter (2026) by Marina Ogai. From the Given series, a visual exploration of predestination and things that reach us before any choice – our origins, belonging, and given names]()
Given
Some things reach us before any choice: where you're from, who you belong to, the name you're given. What's given can't be undone – it holds us, even far from where it began.
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![Close-up of a pencil drawing from The In-Between series by Marina Ogai: a face with closed eyes in dense hatching.]()
The In-Between
Every state holds a gap between what shows and what's within: same form, opposite meaning. The difference lives inside – beyond anyone else's gaze, and sometimes your own.
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![Artist Marina Ogai in her Bali studio with a brush, beside a large oil painting of a woman in hanbok with a long braid.]()
Coming soon
A new series in oil is still taking shape in the studio. It isn't ready to show yet – subscribers will see it first, together with the full story of how it was made.
Journal
A finished painting keeps quiet about how it was made. Here I write down what happened before it: what I noticed, what I got wrong, what changed along the way. Notes from the studio, closer to thinking than to reporting.