Sirius
Yugo Hasegawa
The work consists of two graphic illustrations depicting the Sun and Sirius, created through abstraction and the repetition of a single form.
Part of a personal journey questioning the structures that organise our lives and a growing interest in the concept of time, the work focuses on two stars that played significant roles in early systems of timekeeping. It reflects on humanity’s relationship with natural cycles and the frameworks through which we organise and understand the world.
The Sun, the centre of our planetary system and the primary source of energy for life on Earth, has long served as one of our fundamental references for measuring time.
Sirius, whose heliacal rising was associated with the annual flooding of the Nile, held particular significance in ancient Egypt and played an important role in calendrical and agricultural practices, including the development of one of the earliest 365-day civil calendars.
Through repetition and Gestalt principles, the work explores how the mind constructs coherent realities from fragments, inviting reflection on how our understanding of the world is mediated by perception and on the possibility that what we perceive may not constitute reality itself.constitute reality itself.
42 × 120 cm.
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Sirius
Yugo Hasegawa
Graphic illustration
42 x 118,9 cm
2026