I drew this work based on the motif of a path I saw in the bush.
This work is also based on the theme of perception.
Kato's landscape paintings are reconstructed by replacing the signals of color and shape that the artist himself sensed and accepted from the landscape with simpler color surfaces and shapes.
In general, perception is constructed by integrating the functions of the sensory organs and the experiences of the individual.
A work of art that depicts the real world, such as a landscape, has a double structure: perception of the real world and perception of the painting itself as a work of art.
As in the context of Western abstract painting, Kato's work takes a reductionist approach, focusing on the composition of color, form and space, reflecting the free sense of color and the rhythm and balance of form that is inherent in painting. By reflecting the free sense of color and manipulating the rhythm and balance of form, he transforms the real world into a pictorially reduced form.
He works more sensitively in front of the work he is confronting, paying attention to the balance of color and form.
Just as Matisse once sought pleasure in his paintings, Kato's works also pursue sensual pleasure through the composition of color and form.