Eiji Sekimizu

I wish to draw the basis of life and the dignity of life through the abstract forms of nature and human beings. The work for this exhibition started with the human figure. As I repeated the esquisse, a sense of volume like the "soul of the soul" was born. I wanted to superimpose a cross-section of...

I wish to draw the basis of life and the dignity of life through the abstract forms of nature and human beings. The work for this exhibition started with the human figure. As I repeated the esquisse, a sense of volume like the "soul of the soul" was born. I wanted to superimpose a cross-section of the real world situation with my own thoughts and capture it as an expression. The black mass in the center of the screen is the human form. The bizarre torso without eyes or nose is the prototype of a violently stripped human being born from an absurd collision, a human being who is innocent and crushed to death. The very figure of the suffering of the "innocent" oppressed exists as if encapsulated therein. However, we "must not just despair." On the right side of the image is a fetus about to be born, as if encased in amniotic fluid. On the right side of the painting is a figure wrapped in soft yellow strokes, waiting for the moment of birth. The "heartbeat of life" resounds there. I wanted to depict the rebirth from "death" and the life about to be born, "the joy of birth at the same time. I wanted to convey the idea that life being born is a symbol of hope, that it is the hope of human beings.