The inside and outside worlds meld together in this painting by Tomokazu Matsuyama. An impossible menagerie of foliage descends before a wallpapered sky, as three figures lounge at sunset amid a mishmash of furniture and the knotty roots of an ancient tree. The composition intermingles Eastern and Western influences, embodying Matsuyama’s interest in intercultural exchange. Amalgamated from his vast mental and physical archive of iconographical material, Matsuyama’s painted worlds vivify his lived experience, combining allusions to fashion models torn from the pages of glossy magazines; flora and fauna borrowed from Edo-period folding screens; open-source wallpaper patterns from the Internet; fragmented snippets of pop culture and celebrity life; frozen movements captured from the garments of centuries-old Buddhist sculptures; compositional strategies of the European Renaissance masters; aesthetic cues from Modernist art history such as shaped canvases and Abstract Expressionist techniques; and of course, those innumerable bits of branded trash ubiquitous in every city in the Western world. Matsuyama’s carefully constructed, fictional landscapes welcome anyone inside to build their own narrative and discover their own meaning.