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Updated: 2024-01-07 18:03:39

STATEMENT OF WORK

My work is about "landscape" associated with the memories that surround my everyday life. My studio practice is to transform the landscape into abstract drawings on canvas and paper with materials such as ink, acrylic, watercolor, oil pastels, photographic images, and collage. I have been intrigued by the nature of memory since it is always with me despite its invisibility and intangibleness. When I started the drawing project "Equivocal Landscape" in 1998, I intended to make one drawing every day, representing my memory of the day as a tree. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "Never Let Me Go" inspired me to perceive how we identify ourselves not by what we look like, but by our memories. This inspiration emphasized my intent in memory and spurred me to "gaze" at memory to observe what I am. Mathematics, which I majored in at college in Japan, also helps me clarify ideas in my art. For instance, a mathematical way of seeing what and how natural numbers exist allows me to conceive how memory might compare to them. 

Equivocal Landscape

I started the "Equivocal Landscape" drawing project in 1998 to depict one drawing daily in a sketchbook. I was inspired by the front cover of National Geographic Magazine. The cover image was a landscape of trees punctuated by the pale amber skylight in the background of an African landscape. I could imagine the trees looked as if to be making a conversation with each other. So I became intent on creating a "tree" of the day that expresses a fragmentary conversation derived from my memories. After over twenty years, "Equivocal Landscape" has become a visual autofiction diary.

Echoes of the Lines

In "Echoes of the Lines," which I started in 2018, I select one drawing from the "Equivocal Landscape" sketchbooks and I am intent on making up a painting that supplements what the nature of the original drawing is about: a fragmentary form. I aim to convey a latent image in the painting form with colors, shapes and textures.

 

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