Water Burns
Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Canvas, Resin, Acrylic, Wax, Ink
Size: 50.4 × 60.5 × 3.1 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Canvas, Resin, Acrylic, Wax, Ink
- Size
- 50.4 × 60.5 × 3.1 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Not Included
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- Tomo Sakurai
- Ship-from Area
- Tokyo
- Days Until Dispatch
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- Category
- Mixed Media
- Style
- Abstract, Everyday, Conceptual
Work Details
“Burnable water” refers to petroleum presented from Koshino Province (present-day Niigata Prefecture) described in the “Nihonshoki.” This work focuses on petroleum, which has become an essential resource for human social and economic development in modern times, and paraffin wax, which is a derivative thereof, and foresees the material itself.
Since the invention of oil painting, the relationship between matter and image has been re-examined in Western art history, but this work connects the exploration of “materiality (materiality)” in contemporary art with the theme of environmental resource issues, and suggests coexistence between limited resources and humans.
Based on the genealogy of mixed media and encaustic techniques developed in the 20th century, it presents new possibilities of expression in visual art by using self-made paraffin wax as an art material.
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Artist
contemporary artist
My practice explores dynamic equilibrium by viewing all phenomena as a continuum rather than fixed opposites. At its core is the Three Visual Principles: Black & White, Color, and Ma, representing opposition, transition, and the space where differences coexist.
Using paint, ink, resin, metal, earth, wax, glass, and mineral pigments, I work with melting, oxidation, heat, and deposition. I observe how materials transform and interact over time, allowing their behavior to shape the work.
These processes give rise to Awai, a space where differences remain distinct while existing together. Within Awai, equilibrium appears as a temporary state in which no element fully dominates another. It is not static balance, but a dynamic condition sustained through change, tension, and fluctuation.
My works preserve these transient relationships as material fragments of Awai and dynamic equilibrium.
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