90 Days of Phenomenon

It is quite natural for people's minds to change.
After 3 months, the fever will cool down, and they will start searching for something next. From left to right on the screen, as time passes, the colors disappear, and the mind returns to its original state.
However, once born, enthusiasm doesn't all go away. Memories that suddenly come to mind, and passion that never cools down over time.
I think what remains after the color fades is proof that you are obsessed with something.

The left side of this work is green, the middle part changes from green to white, and the right side is white with a lumpy texture. The fact that the screen is divided into 3 areas suggests that people's minds and trends are 3 months old. The left side is a dark, vivid scene with a passion for something. It gradually fades as it gets to the middle. Then, it becomes white. The flow of time in the mind was expressed in 3 phases.

As a base for this work, modeling paste was spread thinly, randomly layered, and white and gray were applied. In the previous explanation, it was described that it was divided into 3 phases, but there is a reason why this foundation was applied as a whole. This is because the part that falls under this foundation wanted to show a clean, default state before our original minds were enthusiastic about something.

Also, a lumpy texture like this is applied to the right side. This shows that enthusiasm has awakened, and a new enthusiasm has been added to a heart that has returned to its default state, and it suggests that when people are enthusiastic about something, they are enthusiastic about something else and change their mind.

However, not all people or minds are completely changed. This is shown by these golden square objects and golden marks. Enthusiasm has cooled down for a while, but there are times when it remains in the corner of your heart and you suddenly remember it. Also, the enthusiasm of many people may have cooled down, but there are also a few people whose enthusiasm has not cooled down for a long time and continues to have feelings unchanged from the past.

Produced at the main hall of Kozan-ji Temple (Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken)

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