Seeking for Mother

"Seeking for Mother" addresses one of the most primally resonant emotional experiences — the child's search for the absent or lost mother — through Onchi's characteristic combination of compositional sophistication and emotional directness. The seeking figure's psychological state is the composition's subject: the urgency of the search, the vulnerability of the seeker, the experience of absence rendered through presence. Onchi's treatment of this subject invites comparison with his "Motherhood" works, approaching the mother-child relationship from the child's perspective.