Yoshitomo Nara rose to fame through his iconic depictions of childhood that inextricably brought Japanese Neo-Pop art to a global audience. Merging two inherently different cultures – the East and the West – through the marriage of their visual languages, Nara creates a highly recognisable style that displays multiple influences including manga and anime, as well as Disney and punk rock, to name a few. Constantly re-evaluating his most popular themes in new mediums, Nara’s oeuvre shows distinct reoccurring subjects. The image of the floppy-eared dog can be found in his drawings, prints, sculptures, paintings and even his children’s book The Lonesome Puppy. For Nara, dogs became symbolic of the loneliness he felt in his childhood. Growing up in the Japanese countryside, Nara frequently speaks of his feelings of abandonment and being left to his own devices from a young age. This led him to find solace in picture book characters that inevitably informed his pictorial style, rendering I Think Therefore I am... a Dog a pertinent work of solitude.