During the peak of my activity producing works for my first exhibition, there was one work that was giving me a lot of trouble.
The fact is that as I like to present as many works as possible during a personal exhibition, the work I created separately for a general exhibition caused me no end of problems.
However, there was one rule that kept driving me forward.
“Once you start, keep going”
These words…
I had heard them from so many teachers.
Professor Murose, Professor Hayashi, and Professor Nemoto, to whom I owed so much.
These and so many other of my teachers taught me “Once you start, keep going”.
There are not so many rules that I need to follow, but I think this one -“continue to exhibit without resting” is one of the most important, and I have also tried to produce works in this serious way.
In regard to its expression, in recent years my style has become more settled, and this work includes color elements to express the gold and black.
Until now, I have created works that use shells and although the effect of the shells is to add shine to the works, I had been unable to use them for color expression.
In other words, I was able to produce this shine on a color surface.
In this work, I think that the blue light released from the shine of the stars becomes the color for the expression.
By being able to produce this expression, I will now be able to express colors in my works moving forward.
I have been able to make a step forward from the style in which gold and black are the main monotone
Technically, I felt that this was a certain arrival point and I was able create works using multiple types of materials, such as gold lacquer, “Hyomon”(literally “plain text”), and mother-of-pearl (two types) with a certain degree of completeness.
Additionally, the true matching of molding and expression created a work that was beautiful as a whole.
The theme was a reverend expression of space.
I was curious how physicists and mathematicians lived.
It seemed that their major issue was how to elucidate the puzzle of space.
Creating mathematical problems that could not be solved in 100 years, and becoming mentally damaged in an attempt to solve it, their challenge, seen from the outside, could only be viewed like that of an artist.
During the peak of my activity producing works for my first exhibition, there was one work that was giving me a lot of trouble.
The fact is that as I like to present as many works as possible during a personal exhibition, the work I created separately for a general exhibition caused me no end of problems.
However, there was one rule that kept driving me forward.
“Once you start, keep going”
These words…
I had heard them from so many teachers.
Professor Murose, Professor Hayashi, and Professor Nemoto, to whom I owed so much.
These and so many other of my teachers taught me “Once you start, keep going”.
There are not so many rules that I need to follow, but I think this one -“continue to exhibit without resting” is one of the most important, and I have also tried to produce works in this serious way.
In regard to its expression, in recent years my style has become more settled, and this work includes color elements to express the gold and black.
Until now, I have created works that use shells and although the effect of the shells is to add shine to the works, I had been unable to use them for color expression.
In other words, I was able to produce this shine on a color surface.
In this work, I think that the blue light released from the shine of the stars becomes the color for the expression.
By being able to produce this expression, I will now be able to express colors in my works moving forward.
I have been able to make a step forward from the style in which gold and black are the main monotone
Technically, I felt that this was a certain arrival point and I was able create works using multiple types of materials, such as gold lacquer, “Hyomon”(literally “plain text”), and mother-of-pearl (two types) with a certain degree of completeness.
Additionally, the true matching of molding and expression created a work that was beautiful as a whole.
The theme was a reverend expression of space.
I was curious how physicists and mathematicians lived.
It seemed that their major issue was how to elucidate the puzzle of space.
Creating mathematical problems that could not be solved in 100 years, and becoming mentally damaged in an attempt to solve it, their challenge, seen from the outside, could only be viewed like that of an artist.
I was really pleased with this work, and it was a breakthrough work in many senses of the word. However, I did not believe that such a small work would actually receive a prize.
The East Japan Branch Exhibition is an exhibition in which other sections also exhibit, and my received a certain degree of praise from the judging professors in other departments as well.
I was frankly amazed when told of the award.