STATEMENT OF WORK

My work expresses the phase in which various human acts happen simultaneously. In these works, cause and effect are spun by linking lines together. When I freely embody such lines, I sometimes discover stories I did not expect initially. Starting from a line, a shape is formed in the accumulation and the shape is transformed into a person or a variant of something that I imagine between my consciousness and unconsciousness. In this way, I have worked mainly on etching and drawing.

When I was a boy, I always looked at the ridges of the mountains. I was born and raised in Yamanashi Prefecture, surrounded by mountains on all sides, so it was like being at the bottom of a huge salad bowl. However, unlike salad bowls, mountain ridges change with nature — the trees, the wind, the mists, the clouds, and all the other elements constantly change the ridges every day. Years later, when I was a post-graduate student in London, I looked at the trees in Battersea Park and realized that the lines of twigs exist independently of any notion of right or wrong as if describing the onomatopeia of the moment in the blink of our eyes. At the same time, it was an encounter with my sensibilities as a boy observing mountain ridges all the time. Since then, I have thought I should be like a conductor orchestrating lines as freely as they are.