CONCEPT My paintings are the world depicted through my filter, which is different from the colors and shapes I actually see. In my daily life, I take pictures with a smartphone camera or an SLR camera and leave them behind. The motifs in my paintings are taken from scenes from my daily life. However, I treat the scenery in the photographs I keep as a record of shapes and colors. This is because I do not want to capture the motifs in the photographs as they appear on the canvas, but rather, I want to depict the way the motifs are captured in the interaction between me and the painting. The question then arises, what is it that I am capturing and depicting in my interaction? It is something that cannot be captured in a photograph and cannot be felt visually, so it is difficult to explain in words, but if I were to put it into words, I would say that it is a "unique human sensation. I believe that the "unique human sensation" is the way our minds fluctuate as we take in information captured visually and ruminate on it. I paint the shaking mind by layering material strokes that can be described as "impulsive" and leave traces of the shaking mind. By doing so, the viewer can feel my breath as a painter and the passage of time through the thickness of the paint and the way the lines are drawn. I believe that they will feel something, perhaps because it is a raw line drawn by a human being. I believe that the feelings and attitude I put into a painting will honestly emerge as the expression of the painting. The painter's mind is always wavering, trying to catch the shapes and colors reflected in the senses. What finally emerges in this way may be the world I really wanted to see.
