Sakutei 2022 -
The name "Sakutei" originates in a Japanese term for the creation of gardens.
The works are landscape paintings made by finely cutting up pieces of washi paper colored using mineral pigments and earth pigments, and assembling the pieces in a semi-three-dimensional manner atop the canvases. The shadows and depth created by the raised pieces of paper lend a calm presence to the canvases. Drawing inspiration from the realization that a Japanese-style garden is a landscape painting created using nature and from the gardener's stance of creating the garden through the accumulation of small deliberate acts, the works explore expression that lies between the painting and the creation of landscapes, quietly connecting the acts of seeing and making.
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Paving 2025 -
The works are created with washi paper colored using mineral pigments and earth pigments, with the paper cut into rectangles and arranged in the manner of a mosaic. With an appreciation of the colors of pigments obtained from nature, the works arrange the paper pieces with care, like cobblestones placed stone by stone, as if exploring the balance between nature and human activity.
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Earth Painting 2024 -
The series involves projecting an aerial photograph of a specific location onto a canvas, then overlaying it with pigments made from the soil and rocks collected from that place, attempting to depict the essence of what that location represents. This series is an attempt to simultaneously express the elements and textures of the nature beneath our feet, combined with photographs taken from far above.
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The Landscape of the Sea 2021 - 2023
Each day, I create the color of that day's seascape using watercolors, then paint it on a small piece of paper, recording it, like a diary. Thinking about the vast ocean that is not there before my eyes, creating color with paint, and putting that color onto paper makes me feel that the atmosphere of the sea that day is right there on the paper. This is an experimental work in which I create a shifting personal atlas of landscapes of the sea as I also question the notion of the landscape.
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Drawings of Hope 2019
Canvases with carefully layered fine brush strokes of pale yellow watercolor paint. As time passes, the changing natural light within the room plays across the canvases, which themselves provide a glimpse of hope. Just like the light shining on the canvases, an ever present yet temporary atmosphere is created, and the goal is for the viewer to form their own mental image of the metaphor that goes beyond words.
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