1965 Born, Hiroshima city, Japan
1989 Graduated, Tama Art University(major in oil painting at faculty of Art and Design), Tokyo
I was born in Hiroshima, 1965. My interests in oil painting had led me into Tama Art University. During those academic years new interests were found in joining and piling, and so I worked on collage at first before working on three-dimensional objects using driftwood and plaster. Graduating in 1989 I also had my solo exhibition in Gallery Tamura. For about 5 years after leaving university I was not able to be at work. Then I realised that I might be a kind of person who needed to wait in the same position for a long time of period in order to see some things to appear as images. Since 1997 I continued my solo exhibition every year at Gallery K, Tokyo (except 1999 which was at GalleryQS). Style of work is painting now. Images do not appear easily but the fact that I can only create through working with concrete objects seems to be clear now. Objects are fascinating and keep attracting humans but from a certain point they do not allow us to come any closer.
As symbolically represented by shadow, in nearing a visible form it may disappear once the place is reached, and the line of sight ends up bouncing back. Being repelled in one's attempt to approach... yes, we are unable to capture objects which only have form in moving towards them. I aim to reproduce the object and allow those who have attempted such movement a vicarious experience. In attaching paper and squeezing out paint, things that at first seemingly have no context with each other are suddenly connected, and a form emerges with the effect of disappearing between things with no context .