Capacity (2025)

Capacity appreciates three definitions of the word "capacity": a specified role or position; the amount that something can produce; and the maximum something can contain. Puzzling together one-hundred and fifty individual pastel on wood drawings into a singular mass, C.K.Itamura offers a meditation on: an individual’s capacity for independent agency within groups; the capacity limitations of time, space and energy which cause either stagnation, overwhelm, or growth in a person’s life depending on non-action, reaction or actions taken; and on Dunbar's* number, a measurement of the cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships.

*Dunbar is professor emeritus of evolutionary psychology of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number.

Type

pastel on wood panels

Exhibition

November 15, 2025 thru January 10, 2026

Atrium Wall at San Francisco Arts Education Project, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Thank You

Diana Jameson, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Conrad Praetzel