Kasuza Matsuyama created the Anonymous Portraits series to capture the hidden beauty behind surface-level emotions by exploring distorted facial expressions and abstracted depictions of his subjects. These distortions leave room for viewers to ponder the works, allowing them to instill their interpretations into the features of the people depicted in Matsuyama's delicate paintings. Kasuza Matsuyama seeks to express the universal beauty of everyday life by portraying people in situations of shared commonality. While rooted in the every day, the people depicted in his paintings convey an ethereal, dreamlike ambiguity that invites viewers to imbue the works with their own memories and emotions.