In Japan, the 1990s are known as the “Lost Decade”. After years of prosperity and technological advancement, an economic bubble had burst, causing the economy to crash and sending the country into a period of severe stagnation. The Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida was in his late teens and early 20s, and his early works bear all the hallmarks of the era’s fatigue and disillusionment. In his paintings, salarymen sleep on benches during their lunch break, wrapped (or trapped) in bagwormhellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (6 images)nbsp;