WORKS
Drawing a Shadow
Oil Painting on canvas
727×606mm
2019
Enquire ART PLATFORM TOKYO
Holding my paintbrush as if I was holding a torch, I traced the silhouette of the shadow. Our eyes can see and recognize objects thanks to the light, but the light will also create shadows. In traditional western painting, artists express depth and dimension by depicting shades. Therefore, one can say that rendering shadow means rendering light.
Art doesn’t always generate or express splendid or beautiful things. Art can ruin one’s own existence like deadly poison… because art can be negative, concealed, repelling, or something that needed to be squashed in order for people to survive.
In life, one has to confront his flaws and deviousness. I believe art can scoop up and express one’s darkness. Perhaps only art can do such thing. I shall create painting that sheds a light and reveal even the darkness of the shadow. This is a work that expressed such determination.
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1F ①
Standing under the Waterfall in the Fountain
Oil Painting on canvas
727×530mm
2020
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The theme of the series is `spiritual discipline.’
To paint is to juxtapose the history of humankind and art with our situation today and take on the repeated journey of spiritual discipline and discovery.
The same can be said for living as well.
The discipline can be lonesome, and I don’t think anybody can live alone.
Sometimes we need somebody under to stand under the waterfall together.
Locale
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1F ②
Standing under the Waterfall in the Fountain
Oil Painting on canvas
455×380mm
2020
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The theme of the series is `spiritual discipline.’
To paint is to juxtapose the history of humankind and art with our situation today and take on the repeated journey of spiritual discipline and discovery.
The same can be said for living as well.
The discipline can be lonesome, and I don’t think anybody can live alone.
Sometimes we need somebody under to stand under the waterfall together.
Standing under the Waterfall in the Fountain
Oil Painting on canvas
530 x 455mm
2020
Enquire ART PLATFORM TOKYO
The theme of the series is `spiritual discipline.’
To paint is to juxtapose the history of humankind and art with our situation today and take on the repeated journey of spiritual discipline and discovery.
The same can be said for living as well.
The discipline can be lonesome, and I don’t think anybody can live alone.
Sometimes we need somebody under to stand under the waterfall together.
Locale
：
1F ③
Standing under the Waterfall in the Fountain
Oil painting on canvas
727×606mm
2020
Enquire ART PLATFORM TOKYO
The theme of the series is `spiritual discipline.’
To paint is to juxtapose the history of humankind and art with our situation today and take on the repeated journey of spiritual discipline and discovery.
The same can be said for living as well.
The discipline can be lonesome, and I don’t think anybody can live alone.
Sometimes we need somebody under to stand under the waterfall together.
Locale
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1F ④
Light Up With Paintbrush
Oil Painting on canvas
910×652mm
2021
Enquire ART PLATFORM TOKYO
This series was influenced by Portrait of Ekadanpi by Sesshu.
I depicted a cave, the place where Bodhidharma trained, and a hand holding a paintbrush high like a torch.
Sometimes when I’m painting, the canvas looks like a huge intimidating wall.
By repeatedly applying and removing the paint on canvas, drawing, layering, deleting and then adding back the lines, I feel as I am digging a cave.
The real world can be claustrophobic with a large invisible wall towering over me.
Being Japanese artist painting using oil paints, being a woman…
Being 30….
So what? I ask myself but I am petrified by so-called `common belief’
What I can’t say in words, I shall express in my painting.
Studying the past, choosing the image, and facing the canvas with paints…
Painting is my savior.
I’d like to dig through the dark cave holding my paintbrush as a guide.
I painted the series depicting my own ‘cave and wall,’ which overlapped the theme in Portrait of Ekadanpi
Eka offered his left hand to show that he is determined to dedicate his life to Zen Buddhism.
I will never want to cut off my hand, but instead, I will offer my hand holding a paintbrush.
Locale
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3F ⑱
Light Up With Paintbrush
Oil Painting on canvas
530×455mm
2021
Enquire ART PLATFORM TOKYO
This series was influenced by Portrait of Ekadanpi by Sesshu.
I depicted a cave, the place where Bodhidharma trained, and a hand holding a paintbrush high like a torch.
Sometimes when I’m painting, the canvas looks like a huge intimidating wall.
By repeatedly applying and removing the paint on canvas, drawing, layering, deleting and then adding back the lines, I feel as I am digging a cave.
The real world can be claustrophobic with a large invisible wall towering over me.
Being Japanese artist painting using oil paints, being a woman…
Being 30….
So what? I ask myself but I am petrified by so-called `common belief’
What I can’t say in words, I shall express in my painting.
Studying the past, choosing the image, and facing the canvas with paints…
Painting is my savior.
I’d like to dig through the dark cave holding my paintbrush as a guide.
I painted the series depicting my own ‘cave and wall,’ which overlapped the theme in Portrait of Ekadanpi
Eka offered his left hand to show that he is determined to dedicate his life to Zen Buddhism.
I will never want to cut off my hand, but instead, I will offer my hand holding a paintbrush.
Locale
：
3F ⑲
Light Up With Paintbrush
Oil Painting on canvas
455×380 mm
2021
Sold
This series was influenced by Portrait of Ekadanpi by Sesshu.
I depicted a cave, the place where Bodhidharma trained, and a hand holding a paintbrush high like a torch.
Sometimes when I’m painting, the canvas looks like a huge intimidating wall.
By repeatedly applying and removing the paint on canvas, drawing, layering, deleting and then adding back the lines, I feel as I am digging a cave.
The real world can be claustrophobic with a large invisible wall towering over me.
Being Japanese artist painting using oil paints, being a woman…
Being 30….
So what? I ask myself but I am petrified by so-called `common belief’
What I can’t say in words, I shall express in my painting.
Studying the past, choosing the image, and facing the canvas with paints…
Painting is my savior.
I’d like to dig through the dark cave holding my paintbrush as a guide.
I painted the series depicting my own ‘cave and wall,’ which overlapped the theme in Portrait of Ekadanpi
Eka offered his left hand to show that he is determined to dedicate his life to Zen Buddhism.
I will never want to cut off my hand, but instead, I will offer my hand holding a paintbrush.
Light Up With Paintbrush
Oil Painting on canvas
410×318mm
2021
Sold
This series was influenced by Portrait of Ekadanpi by Sesshu.
I depicted a cave, the place where Bodhidharma trained, and a hand holding a paintbrush high like a torch.
Sometimes when I’m painting, the canvas looks like a huge intimidating wall.
By repeatedly applying and removing the paint on canvas, drawing, layering, deleting and then adding back the lines, I feel as I am digging a cave.
The real world can be claustrophobic with a large invisible wall towering over me.
Being Japanese artist painting using oil paints, being a woman…
Being 30….
So what? I ask myself but I am petrified by so-called `common belief’
What I can’t say in words, I shall express in my painting.
Studying the past, choosing the image, and facing the canvas with paints…
Painting is my savior.
I’d like to dig through the dark cave holding my paintbrush as a guide.
I painted the series depicting my own ‘cave and wall,’ which overlapped the theme in Portrait of Ekadanpi
Eka offered his left hand to show that he is determined to dedicate his life to Zen Buddhism.
I will never want to cut off my hand, but instead, I will offer my hand holding a paintbrush.