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When I was able to remember, I watched the gravel road in the neighborhood gradually being paved with asphalt, and I felt that the division between the earth and humans progressed in places unrelated to my own intentions, and I felt lonely and fearful. After completing graduate school, he moved to a mountainous area in Oita Prefecture. As I spent time surrounded by mountains, I felt that the sounds and textures of nature and wild animals seeped into my body, and my heart was filled. In a chaotic world created by humans, I feel like I can face my own life and live by feeling the connection with the activities of people who are not humans.

When drawing a picture, there is feedback from the screen, and it feels like eating a picture. There was a sense of incongruity with using ready-made paints for some time, and after moving to mountainous areas, I started painting with dirt. It is drawn using a classical technique called fresco with plaster and soil on a support made by reusing wood or hemp bags discarded at local factories. Fresco is an Italian word meaning “fresh,” and it has the characteristic of drawing before the plaster dries. Fresco painting is a technique that does not fade and remains unfaded for hundreds of years, and is used in church interior murals, etc. Taking advantage of the characteristics of frescoes, the climate, physical condition, and mood of the day are reflected in pictures drawn improvised. The title expresses the sound that came to mind after the work was completed in the alphabet, and there is no meaning in the words, and it is attached as if it were an extension of brushwork.

Pigments are made by collecting soil from places and people around us that we visit by chance and refining it. In addition, hemp bags discarded at local bean sprouts factories are reused as canvases. Slaked lime for agriculture is mixed with fibers from hemp bags to make plaster, and before it dries, the soil is drawn with paint dissolved in well water. We use a fresco technique where the calcium component of the plaster coats the soil and fixes it.

I am making it at home surrounded by nature.