Floating with the "emptiness"

Graduated from the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018. After graduation, worked as a designer in the game industry, and currently creates art that spans the fields of art and illustration. What foundation does what we call "reality" actually have? Since the development of digital technology, material existence and data existence have not only not been separated, but have permeated each other, and the boundary between them is becoming almost meaningless in terms of perception. Non-material images take on a strong sense of reality, and conversely, things that exist as material are also consumed symbolically as information. In this inverted situation, "existence" and "perception" are no longer self-evident, but appear as unstable processes that are constantly being generated. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, majoring in oil painting in 2018. After graduation, he worked as a designer in the game industry, and now he works across the fields of art and illustration. In modern times, we live simultaneously in the world as material and the world as data, and the boundary between these is already blurred. Digital images have a strong sense of reality even though they have no matter, and on the other hand, things that exist as matter are also consumed as information. Under such circumstances, production is centered around questions such as “what is reality” and “how is existence recognized.” In production, a method of layering images as information and traces as matter on the same screen by outputting an image drawn in a digital environment to a support and adding material drawing such as oil paint or resin from above is used. The layers that occur on the screen are not simply visual structures; they also indicate the hierarchy of reality, fluctuating perceptions, and the state of the subject being reconstructed. He is also active as an illustrator under the name “Hirose,” providing illustrations for domestic and international games, light novels, and works starting with Hatsune Miku. While going back and forth between visual expression in the commercial field and practice as a work of art, he explores the state of painting in the present day.