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Concept

Natsuka Kuze studied contemporary art at Tokyo University of the Arts and worked at an advertising company before studying Japanese painting in 2007. In 2019, she suddenly dipped her brush in paint and slid it onto paper, and was struck by the beauty of the unexpected trails of lines that appeared. Since then, she has continued to create abstract paintings in addition to Japanese-style paintings. In her abstract paintings, there are countless colored lines. Her world is a mixture of delicacy reminiscent of Japanese-style painting and dynamic color tones that appear incidentally. Depending on the type of brush she uses and the amount of water in the paint, her paintings show a variety of expressions. No two lines are alike. Colors melt into each other, overlap each other, and accidentally appear in the trajectory of colors. The "color trails" give a completely different impression depending on the viewer's background and state of mind. In particular, the color series, which he has been working on since 2022, has received various evaluations from viewers, such as "it looks like light," "it looks like the universe," "it looks like annual rings," "it looks like people," and "it refreshes my mind. He aims to create high-quality art that resonates with viewers' hearts and stirs their imagination, and his works are based on what he finds fresh and surprising.