Hitomi

｜Profile

Hitomi

Born in 1991 in Saitama. Contemporary artist based in Tokyo.

I create paintings using fine perceptions and signs that appear in relationships with nature and people, and the “feeling of life” before they become words as clues.

Mainly using acrylic, fluctuations caused by the body, nature, memory, and emotions are developed on the screen while repeating physical strokes and delicate adjustments.

The flowers that appear in the work do not depict specific plants, but appear as “flowers as waves of existence,” where the vibrations of life take shape for a moment.

｜Statement

What I'm staring at is a feeling or emotion before it becomes a word, and something that rises from that fluctuation.

Since I was young, I have been capturing and observing the feelings and emotions that occur within myself. They don't just exist within oneself; they constantly change and resonate in relationships with people and nature.

Giving the outline of words to what you receive, and resonate with others through it. The dialogue itself was an expression that had been going on for a long time.

Face-to-face dialogue was restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that expression transitioned to painting. While going back and forth between verbal media and paint media, perception and presence that cannot be captured by words alone were transferred to the screen.

In painting, starting from rough positions and images that were improvised, the drawing proceeds while entrusting it to the flow of body movements and senses. Amidst the unexpected changes and changes that arise from there, regions that cannot be touched by consciousness alone emerge.

Strong strokes release energy and quiet adjustments that scoop up minute changes. In that round trip, different states such as reason and sensibility, order and chaos, and light and shadow are not in conflict, but rather as something that exists and resonates at the same time.

The flowers that appear in the work do not depict specific plants. Traces where the vibrations of life took shape for a moment.
It is a “flower as a wave of existence,” where fluctuations in body, nature, memory, and emotion occur on the screen.

Paintings do not close down to a single meaning; they quietly resonate with each viewer's body and memory, and new perceptions and sensations are born. I feel the possibility of expression in this open space.