contemporary Japanese art

I'm preparing for the exhibition scheduled for October.

I've started painting a new picture.

I have started painting a new picture. 

Shall I turn it horizontally or vertically?

What will be in the final end?

I think it would be nice to see pink in the finished work, so I put this color on canvas.

I want to proceed painting over and over and make sure that in the end it will be vibrant.

It is my work and I can go wherever I want to.

I am interested in painting something like a structure.

This form looks supportive, but it is yet unstable and exists only in the painting.

I seek to show that incompatible things may exist together.

I started painting with oil today and the smell in the studio has changed.

I want to share the sheen and vibrancy of the painting and the thickness of the brushstrokes with the people standing in front of the painting.　

I feel that oil paints convey to people the history of the painter's dialogue with the picture, and that is why I paint in oil.

At this stage I'm trying to create deep depth, as the picture can become flat when it is painted over and over again. 

I don’t let my body to move in the same way and try to control sudden and unexpected movements. 

So that people who stand in front of the painting can experience an unexpected space.

Today I came to the studio to look at the painting.

While looking at the painting, I see my own choices and decisions.

There are many signs of movement in the ambiguity of painting, and I'm still not sure what will happen.

I wait for a while; the reason is that the next step is likely to determine the direction of work.

Though in the beginning I think that I know what feeling I would like to express, in the process it could change or go into a different direction because of something unexpected. 

Now, I think I should go in this direction where I can feel more strength and beauty in the details, so that I can accept mistakes and break stability. 

Some lines will be erased a few minutes after I draw them, but that's not a mistake, they will trigger the next line to be born as part of the layers of the finished work.

The full canvas is covered with oil paints and brushstrokes are now visible on the picture plane.

Today, in comparison to the time before and after I started painting, the space has changed, and I see new shapes even on the sides.

The paint infused and the picture looks darker than yesterday, so I started to make the whole work brighter. 

Colors are saturated and bright, they make the lower part look darker, so I boldly repainted this area with different colors, even if I liked how it was before.

The flat and sharp look on the surface and the variation of the lines bring new scenes.

I want the painting to be a place where incompatible things meet create a beautiful moment.

I use sensory contrasts as a motif and create spatial depth again.

I want to use the forms that lie between abstract and figurative to expand the free imagination of the viewer. 

I express the artificial and the natural within a single line.

I show the three-dimensional effect via a single line.

Single line defines the space.

Painting is in progress ... look at the diagonal image below. 

The choices are endless and deepen my hesitation. 

I also notice that I should toss aside the inferior objects and remove non-essential details. I try to “listen” to the line.

There are parts that start to represent something and parts that are just covered with paint, so I pull them up to the same level. In order to fill in the painting with everything that is necessary, I create the movement of the entire space and also work on every detail. Directions in which the painting could develop have no limits, so I try to act carefully and smoothly.

In the folds of complex colors you may see regular movement of nature and people. 

Lines appear and disappear vaguely, undifferentiated masses of paint. 

Some lines look alive and some are not, but I try to make them alive.

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Again I add some new elements to emphasize the important things.

When I do so, elements that dominated the painting before disappear and the picture scene changes.

I create light. 

Every line represents speed and slowness, as well as firmness and softness. 

It could be a symbol of clarity, and on the other side play its role in showing ambiguity.

Color may broaden or limit the image of the sensation created by the line. 

The human body acquires experience and skills and it could be interesting to express them through the lines unconsciously.

The white line appeared here today without hesitation. 

I’m not sure whether it would impress the viewers, but I hope it will. 

In order to make the upper part lines being seen clearly, the lower part should be expressed differently from the upper part.

In order to make brighter the overall impression, I arranged color details and brush strokes. 

I have a feeling that I’m coming to the end of the process.

Even with the same color you can convey different messages if the shapes, brush strokes and positions are different. 

I think the fun of painting is that you can create a sense of time. 

I want to see how space and time start to flow in the mix of things.

Your body will tell you when the painting is completed.

I feel like a lump which was inside me until now is disappearing.

I have completed this painting differently from the previous ones and that keeps me being interested in painting.