一見すると彼女の作品は可愛らしく見えますが、彼女は自身が生きていく中で感じたことを通し思考し、同時代的なリアリティのあるテーマ、メッセージを持った作品を制作しています。 初期の作品においては、彼女は「自分と他者」をテーマに、自身の投影である少女や、他者の投影であるウサギを描いてきました。
自分とは何か、他者とどのように関係しているのかというアイデンティティの探求を、絵画に表現していました。
その後「自分と他者との関係性」から、「その“関わり方”、“共有されるもの、されないもの”」へと表現は変化して行きました。
子育てを経た現在では、子供と大人のメタファーとなる雑草と都市を描いています。 計画的に作られていく都市に対し、自由に縦横無尽に発生して行く雑草を「雑草さん」というキャラクターとして描くことで、大人になった自分が今一度雑草さんの気持ちで世界を見つめてみたいと語ります。

Asa Go was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1978. She graduated from the Department of Painting with a Concentration in Western Painting at Joshibi University of Art and Design in 2001 and completed Master's Program in Art Research at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2003. In 2005, she went to New York for the emerging artist study abroad program supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs.
While her work may appear cute at first glance, Go contemplates and reflects on her experiences in life, creating works with contemporary themes and messages that resonate with reality. As a third-generation Korean living in Japan, her participation in KIAF 2004 Special Exhibition Contemporary Japanese Art prompted her to contemplate her own identity. Subsequently, she began incorporating rabbits, which are said to resemble the Korean Peninsula in shape, into her artwork. In her early works, she explored the theme of ʻself and othersʼ, depicting figures such as girls representing herself and rabbits representing others. She expressed the quest for identity through her paintings. Her expression later shifted from ʻthe relationship between self and othersʼ to ʻthe form of that relationship, what is shared and what is notʼ. Now, having gone through parenthood, she paints weeds and cities as metaphors for children and adults. In contrast to the planned cities, she portrays weeds that grow freely in all directions as a character named ʻMr. and Ms. Weedʼ, expressing her desire to see the world once again through the perspective of Mr. and Ms. Weed's mindset as an adult.

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