Currently, you create the motif yourself,
photograph it, and then translate that photograph into an oil painting. What
expressions or suggestions arise from taking these steps during the process?
Photographic works are expressed as if they
are an absolute reflection of truth. On the other hand, when you try to capture
something with the naked eye without using a camera, it then becomes quite
subjective. By
following the process of painting what has been photographed, the output
becomes detailed, but since it is rendered as a painting through the
artist’s perspective, it includes an element of
fiction. Using a camera results in an image that appears truthful, but
because it is a painting, there is also a sense of emptiness. The question
arises whether what is depicted on the canvas actually exists or not,
making the layers of reality and fiction even more complex, I think.You want to make the clarity a bit more vague?
Vaguer, more complex… It’s the same for the abstract
and the concrete, and I want to further blend together the imaginary and
reality.
I see. I would like to ask you about your
process of creation. When you start working on a piece, where do you begin from?
I start by creating the motif, and the first process
I undertake is photographing that.
It begins with you going hands on into the
project. Do you go through your thoughts before creating?
Sometimes
the idea comes from thinking, and other times it comes from working with my
hands, so it’s both.
How does the form of these motifs come into
existence? Do you approach the image that you have in your mind, or do you rely
more on spontaneity?
It depends
on the motif. Each material has its own freedom and constraints, the balances and elements they provide are
different. For clay, I feel it is more appropriate to
approach it with a certain level of planning rather than emphasizing
spontaneity by just moving my hands. Yet for cellophane which I have been using
recently, I cut it with a cutter and drop paint on it, and this composition
process utilizes spontaneity and unpredictability.
Each of your works has its own title, do you
discover them during the process of creation?
Since I don’t consider that when I am
creating, the titles are added afterward.