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Inspired by the socio-economic existentialism of Edward Hopper, Sato portrays scenes of isolation and estrangement in the San Francisco of today, illustrative of the social consciousness of post-pandemic alienation. Even when Sato’s figures do gather in groups, the compositions evoke a palpable tension between them, and the underlying threat of isolation – a social experience all too familiar in these contentious times. Where Hopper painted Depression-era New York, Sato’s San Francisco is also one in financial crisis, an urban backdrop in freefall. This is, in part, autobiographical of Sato’s …