The sky and the earth that Kurumi saw

framed image glass picture frame

The landscape seen from the walnut shell at the bottom of the work is drawn on a black paper file using that shell. Where did they grow up, where did they flow from, and what was that journey like? I think there are dramas that have reached the present, no matter how trivial. A new future will be shaped by everyday relationships, even in trivial matters.
(This work is hard to remove dust and dirt because the ground is paper files. (Framing is required for long-term exhibitions)

This is a view from the viewpoint of a walnut shell. That shell is also attached to the work. I'm drawing on sandpaper with that shell, just like drawing with chalk on a blackboard. The shell literally turns the flesh into powder, and I paint the world around me in my own colors and from my point of view. That point of view and that moment of the surroundings are unique. This shell seems worthless to us. But that value standard is only for use. We too are part of nature, but we tend to forget that.

Exhibited at solo exhibition at Gallery Apa Main Room (Nagoya) in 2018

Draw with walnut shells on sandpaper: photograph the landscape from the perspective of a walnut shell.
Based on that photo, I draw a landscape with that shell on sandpaper. Similar to writing with chalk on a blackboard, it is drawn using the shell being scraped off and lines can be drawn on sandpaper.

Depicted location: Toba City, Mie Prefecture/ Production Location: Atelier Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

All things and things shape the present. In that moment, we never met again. Moments ahead of the present is the future, and everything in the present shapes the future ahead. No entity can spill out of it.

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