Under the Cherry Blossoms
I am and will be sooooooo busy recent months.
While moving around, I've clean forgotten this blog.
Spring has already come, and the cherry trees in front of my room are going to be in full bloom.
Thought to have a lunch under the trees, but the hard wind prevented.
Anyway, I arranged a bit my painting page.
“Rhino and Elephant” in DEBLI Project and a work for Big Shoes are coming soon.
- 2007/03/30
- Diary
Wonder Pallet.
- 2007/03/19
- WONDER PALLET
Keep
Just finished “Big Shoes” early morning yesterday.
I worked nonstop as usual.
Once I start to paint, I associate with the artwork like caregiver.
I look at the unfinished work by my side even at meals and bed.
Several attempts. I wish the work would be better and better.
That moment, I think earnestly, might be the most pleasant time for me.
By the way, I've grasped the way to paint a little recently.
So excited that I couldn't stop.
Keep.
- 2007/03/16
- DEBLI
The Pleasure of Creating.
Continuing painting for DEBLI Project since yesterday.
I'm designing a character that I imagine from a name of Big Shoes and forming it to a painting.
Inspiration.
Sketch.
Painting.
The detail is turning and turning, into what they should be.
And suddenly I come across what I haven't expected.
Perhaps that is the pleasure of creating.
- 2007/03/15
- DEBLI
Living Feeling.
Started painting for DEBLI Project.
An idea come to me in a train and now has grown in my studio.
The more my brain cells change, the more the image turns.
I'm attached to this living feeling.
- 2007/03/14
- DEBLI
Why I enjoy so much…
I'm generating artworks one after another.
I enjoy my time of working.
The pace is stable, and ideas are brought to myself every time.
I find the reason why I enjoy so much is I could always be experimental.
- 2007/03/13
- Diary
Title undecided.
Working for the solo show in May (at Tokyo.)
Finished the press, and the image for the advertising card.
Not decide the title yet.
This image had taken from a window of my room where I had lived in my school days.
Finished the press, and the image for the advertising card.
Not decide the title yet.
This image had taken from a window of my room where I had lived in my school days.
- 2007/03/12
- Diary
Rhythm.
Had a meeting.
Then invited to a home party.
A world champion of avocado cuisine cooked sushi in front of me.
Technique of expert entertained people.
That neat job with a rhythm was agreeable.
Everything needs rhythm, thought, gobbling down the sushi.
- 2007/03/12
- Diary
Wonderful Night, pt 3.
To monthly party of DJ Edword. It's a homey party.
Talked, laughing. It was a wonderful night today too.
- 2007/03/10
- Diary
Sophisticated Puzzle Rings
I've made it a point not to narrow materials when I create for a long time.
Especially ragged boards floated to the shore have been my favorite canvas.
Cardboards gotten from grocery shops are also wonderful materials.
Only rule when I create my works of art is to create "without rule."
If creating would be "a work stretches a world of mine," on the contrary a rule makes limit to my world.
"Being without rule" is important, and I do think that is what creating should be.
By the way, recently I think a lot about "recreating."
DEBRI Project I'll take part in this April leads me to think of it.
Objet d'art made by Takemi Nishimoto looked like "sophisticated puzzle rings."
I faced a question how I should recreate work admirably finished by him.
Recreating is a work to find out "very what the material could be."
This work is hard for ones who have limit.
So this project is a perfect dream.
I heard there are over 180 people will participate in this show.
The visitors of course will, and we artists will be so interested in how they could face this "sophisticated puzzle rings."
- 2007/03/09
- DEBLI
Songs for Farewell
I like songs for farewell.
Feel that there're a lot of masterpieces in songs about it.
Farewell to sweetheart and friends. Separating or parting.
Many songs for farewell send me.
And at the same time I feel like the music set creativity within me working.
I find myself in a spirit in which I dive into the depth of my heart.
It's sure that there's creativity derives from loneliness or solitariness.
- 2007/03/08
- Midnight Talking
Zero-Information.
Came across a movie on TV midnight.
I had no information about the movie.
Taking a vacant glance at the screen for a while, I found it was so exciting.
That kind of encounter might be the best for me, I thought.
I have never heard its title and plot.
So to speak, it's a condition of zero-information.
It's unexpectedly difficult to see a movie with a flat mind,
……but it's one of my ideal.
By chance, or fortuitously coming across an exciting thing.
That's a way to enjoy things just like pleasure of travel.
- 2007/03/08
- Midnight Talking
If I had a Time Machine...
Thought when I was cooking rice.
That the very first person had done it was very clever.
I wonder how had he (or she) found a way to thresh through to boil.
How long had it taken to discover the way to cook hot rice?
I often imagine things like that. The first person had eaten natto, for example.
We've already known natto is a food, so we can eat natto without hesitations.
But it must have been a great adventure for the first person.
I could imagine that he (or she) had frustration to touch the thing first.
Whether can it be eaten, or not? This is the very beginning.
I'd like to see that moment, if I had a time machine.
This image is from my San Francisco days.
That the very first person had done it was very clever.
I wonder how had he (or she) found a way to thresh through to boil.
How long had it taken to discover the way to cook hot rice?
I often imagine things like that. The first person had eaten natto, for example.
We've already known natto is a food, so we can eat natto without hesitations.
But it must have been a great adventure for the first person.
I could imagine that he (or she) had frustration to touch the thing first.
Whether can it be eaten, or not? This is the very beginning.
I'd like to see that moment, if I had a time machine.
This image is from my San Francisco days.
- 2007/03/06
- Midnight Talking
77
By the way, I have a kind of attachment to the numbers like "77" or "7."
I don't particularly like the numbers and think they're my lucky number.
Perhaps because I was born in '77, maybe.
Actually, the more years go by, the more I come to be attached to the number.
Now I remember that I had named my 7th solo show "AMULET SEVEN."
I seem to have used the number "7" as a kind of sign.
I've found it just now.
By the way today's article is the 77th.
Breathing deeply with the number.
- 2007/03/05
- Midnight Talking
Tears
My grandfather died thirteen years ago today.
I was seventeen years old then and it was the first time for me to come across a death of a person close to me.
I shed drops of tears at the moment I felt lonely without him on the way to the crematory.
I understood his death, but tears shed against my mind.
For I've rarely wept, it was a strange experience.
Had a sense in which my heart was divided totally from my mind.
I sobbed to be stunned.
Today is the thirteen anniversary of my grandfather's death.
I've never cried since that day.
- 2007/03/04
- Diary
Yo-GEN 1
If one spends time with a thick head, the day will not be a special day but one of routine days.
- 2007/03/03
- Yo-GEN
Colors, as Dancing.
A show has started in L.A today. For me it's the first show of 2007.
Another six shows are continuing from this show, so I'm creating artworks for the shows in Japan.
I've discovered a new world of colors at the beginning of this year.
And my creations are going very well.
I feel as if the colors are dancing in my palette.
I hope to keep creating artworks giving off positive energies.
- 2007/03/02
- Diary
Identifying the End.
We might think vaguely "things are never-ending."
We know there's no never-ending in this world, but we sometimes imagine that.
Today, tomorrow, or life.
Everything in this world has its end.
That's all right because that's the way the world is.
But we need to understand it.
Nothing is achieved without concentration.
- 2007/03/01
- Midnight Talking
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