Contemporary Art Free Expression

My paintings are not pure abstraction.  They are my mental image. I paint for the sake of meditation.

They are like mantic image in yoga, which I have practiced for a long time.

When I pray in front of my painting, I sense the picture is overworked.

I remove unimportant elements on the picture and only the essential elements remain.

So the picture inevitably becomes minimal. I’d like to paint something simple, deep, and beautiful.

I often remember what Kagaku Murakami once said: “To paint is a pray in the closed-door room.”

I have painted the light of hope in the darkness. That light is from my teacher Sadamasa Motonaga’s words:

“We will see the light in the darkness near future.”

This time I painted only smoke. When we die, we will become bone, ash, and smoke and disappear.

I painted such a sense of mortality. That’s what we call memento mori.

Being conscious of that, I realize that I am alive. I am joyful and thankful for everything.