Sediments of Time No.10

This work depicts the accumulation of time.
As I continued to ask myself “what is this drawing” from the middle stage of production, what gradually became visible was visualizing the “texture of time” invisible to the eye.

The white margin at the top of the screen represents “time without thinking” or “a sense of temporary pause.” Unproductive, so to speak, a “blank” time. However, it is precisely because of that useless time that the whole thing is in harmony and formed as a work — I feel that this is the same in life.

The oozing and overlapping colors of the middle and lower layers are dense and vivid traces of time that have passed.
And the three-dimensional lumpy texture is a remnant of events and memories that strongly shook the heart — for better or worse, deeply engraved time.

The gold objects and golden fragments placed in it are like “gold dust” that remains slightly when pebbles and mud have been removed.
I don't remember all the time clearly, but the things that are really important certainly stick in my mind, even if only a few. It may be something that is sublimated into one's own values, choices, beliefs — a “way of life.”

The wooden cube standing on the screen symbolizes “inevitability within chance” and “order contained in the unconscious” lurking in the natural world. The regular shapes seen in minerals and natural stones are rare orders that appear in chaotic nature. Inspired by that figure, this cube is placed in the work as a “miracle shape” that appears after countless choices and events overlap.

A term coined by this writer. It is a word coined to express deep, clear blue like sapphire and a calm, serene atmosphere. For that sound, I dared to choose Japanese and superimpose images of color and mind

When I first started drawing this series, the subject was “nature.”

The lumpy matière on the screen symbolizes the earth, and the soft layer that oozes symbolizes the flow of water.

It was close to my senses, evoking “memories of scenery” within me.

However, as production continued, the depiction of nature gradually began to be linked to human emotions, time, and philosophy.

Hard strata turn into “strongly engraved memories,”

The ooze of water leads to “thoughts and feelings that flow and do not return,”

And the “serenity” born in nature overlapped with my own inner serenity.

If you look at it superficially, this work is an abstract landscape based on imagination.

However, traces of my own life flow, memories, and thoughts have sunk into it.

Before I knew it, drawing nature was supposed to depict humans —

I think that is the quiet change and change of meaning that underlies this work.

Presence in Space