The "Piles on the Water" series, an irregular series of works from 2001 to 2008, was suspended for a few years and then re-titled "Piles" in 2011. The policy of not being concerned with the specific colors "typical of the surface of water" as long as the fluidity and quietness can be expressed is the same as in the previous series. In addition, in this series, we challenged ourselves to construct "landscapes of various piles" by adding motifs other than piles and arranging them in relation to piles. This is the ninth work under the new title. The colored surfaces of the lotus pond-like shape are distributed in an intricate manner, with noisy green and red colored surfaces clashing with each other. The white piles are placed there. I tried to create an image of "two time axes coexisting. As for the production process, I made a full-size line drawing on a separate piece of tracing paper, like a large sketch of a Japanese-style painting, which mainly describes the arrangement of motifs such as piles. Then, the layer composition of colors to be painted over is planned. Once the plan has been finalized to a certain extent, the line drawing on tracing paper is transferred to the panel and the main painting process begins. The panel used is double-sided. The panel is painted on the entire surface of the screen, sides and back. The same color as the screen background is also applied to the sides. After the screen is pre-painted by underpainting and scraping to destroy the grain of the wood, more than 20 layers of paint, including partial and solid, are applied as a descriptive layer. Then, grinding with water-resistant sandpaper is repeated until a finished screen is found. The slit on the back of the work is a ventilation duct inside the panel, but pins and hooks can also be hooked during installation. The smooth machined matiere also allows the work to be wiped clean with a dishcloth. The layering and grinding of acrylic paint to create the picture surface (personally referred to as "layering") is no different from the non-objective free painting "Layers of Color," and the matiere and coloration are consistent in the works in this series. One of the characteristics of the paintings, "multilayered magic," is to be fully utilized. A scene that can only exist by paint on a support. In 1999, I found a way of doing this that was in line with my desire from the time I started to create, and since then I have been pursuing the possibilities of painting.
