Sediments of Time No.5

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.

When I first started painting abstracts, the subject was “nature.”
The lumpy texture that appears on the screen and the expression that paint oozes out evoked “memories” and “feelings” of the landscape within myself.

However, as production continued, expressions of nature gradually became linked to human emotions, time, and philosophical questions.

The surface of the earth is blurry and lumpy with no shape.
Each work has a different meaning, and they reflect traces of my own inner world from time
to time.
At some point, drawing nature was supposed to depict people and thoughts.
This is common to all series.

Presence in Space