True blue
"Think for a moment before entering the blue-filled universe. It means that nothing is predictable in our world, where everything corresponds to our senses. The terrifying truth that we cannot even predict the nearest future approaches us as an illusion of stability and tilts our minds. We will have to endure and not waste the splendid time of life in which our souls and senses accompany us."
I would like to see the above miscellaneous texts as the struggles of a young artist who tried to practice the truth that the better the writing, the shorter and more concise. Anyway, I have been persistently insisting on the rather obvious slogan of 'pictures to see rather than pictures to read' for a short period of time. One day, as the name of an award review by a certain foundation, it was published with a strangely poignant sentence, 'It is thought that he deviates from the trend with a strong image and seeks his own, but it is a bit banal, so it is a pity', but I remember thinking it was just that. . However, I would like to emphasize that the 『TRUE-BLUE (2021~)』 series is a crystal that contains concentration and envy about the pure substance of painting itself.
The title "TRUE-BLUE" was named on several solid grounds. First, blue has long been considered a color symbolizing fidelity. Second, it also refers to a person with an attitude that does not bend their beliefs, and it is consistent with my worldview, which I do not want to be caught up in by a trend that will stay for a while and disappear. Let me try to speak in a more realistic language. Just as magnesium deficiency provokes a body reaction called convulsions under the eyes, the old feeling of inferiority towards a specific color was embodied as a will to overcome through painting, and that color was blue. Going back to when I was an apprentice, I came to the question, “Why have I never been proud of blue?” There was no particular reason, but strangely it was. Humans instinctively avoid fear. So, on the one hand, it can be said that my sixth sense has done its job well. However, since I have been facing and overcoming fear rather than avoiding it through painting so far, blue became another object of overcoming and at the same time became the driving force of the TRUE-BLUE series.
For the past few years, I have focused on the originality of the material in order not to be swept away by the wave of universality of my work. Around that time, I witnessed that the unique heavy pressure emitted by blue acts as a neutralizer for the swirling scenery of Mother Nature. In a word, the justification for the series became even stronger after the viewer found the possibility of creating a sense of calm about the great and sublime but somewhat burdensome existence of Mother Nature. At some point, I wanted to go a little further. So I threw off the conventional canvas frame and came to paint my own paints on a solidly smelted aluminum plate. Ironically, in the end, I painted waves to resist the waves of universality.
I think the future that today will bring will be quite valuable. The process of exploring the uncertainty inherent in life will be recorded in blue today. As for the future steps, it's like the deep sea in the work where the depth of the water is unknown, so I can't say for sure. One thing is for sure, however, is that they are prepared to push themselves a little harder. (omitted below)