With Ayako Rokkaku\u2019s paintings, it can be hard to know where to look. The Japanese artist\u2019s canvases, which she paints using her fingers, are a fantastical medley of bright colors swirling around alongside cutesy characters. It\u2019s rare that a square inch of her paintings doesn\u2019t smash together disparate colors.<\/p>\n
Ayako Rokkaku\u2019s first lamp is every bit as vibrant as her art, making it more of a light-up sculpture than a typical light fixture. The lamp brings a regular character in Rokkaku\u2019s paintings to life, their face and hands poking out from behind splotches of pink, yellow, orange, and blue \u201cpaint.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And to cast light, little cat-like figures dotted around the lamp\u2019s uneven surface glow when the lamp turns on. It\u2019s a funkiness befitting such an eccentric lamp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only 300 lamps will be made available via a raffle on the Hong Kong art platform DDTStore<\/a> as part of Hong Kong art week<\/a> 2026, where Rokkaku is making her solo debut. <\/p>\n Your Highsnobiety privacy settings have blocked this Instagram post.<\/p>\n Enable All Media<\/p>\n The lamps cost $5,100 HKD (around $650), an attractive price point for collectors who sometimes have to dish out seven-figure sums<\/a> for Rokkaku\u2019s paintings.<\/p>\n Your Highsnobiety privacy settings have blocked this Instagram post.<\/p>\n Enable All Media<\/p>\n The artist, who cites Jackson Pollock<\/a> as an early influence, is believed to be<\/a> the best-selling Japanese painter of her generation, gaining international acclaim over the past half-decade for her methods of abstracting Japanese kawaii culture, which centres around a fixation with cuteness.<\/p>\n But while best known for her paintings, Rokkaku\u2019s practice has evolved to include equally inventive sculptures that were a focal point of recent exhibitions hosted globally from Berlin\u2019s K\u00d6NIG GALERIE<\/a> to LONG MUSEUM<\/a> in China. Now, her first-ever lamp brings that whimsy home.<\/p>\n