Eng Issue08: Koshiro Kihara

When the interview concluded, what moved my heart the most was his purity. There was no pretense or affectation at all, and he wasn't even a skilled conversationalist. He was merely searching for the right words to speak honestly about himself, and his sincerity was so genuine that it was almost startling. As I looked at his work again in the transparent afterglow of the interview, I realized that his purity was indeed reflected in his paintings, where I could feel a soft yet profound energy. Furthermore, considering that he was grappling with the extremely simple yet infinitely interpretable philosophical concept of "abstract and concrete" by translating his raw thoughts and sensations into his art, I felt as if I were sharing his perspective, standing in the space between abstraction and concreteness. The magnitude of what I felt was unparalleled.

His works, which give visible form to those ever-changing, elusive, and indescribable elements, much like the world and human emotions, without any pretense, are likely to resonate and transform like the ebb and flow of the tides, changing their impression depending on the viewer's state of mind and circumstances.