The cedar tree is an ancient Japanese species of coniferous tree and has always accompanied the flow of Japanese culture/history/tradition.
The grain of the wood shows us a beautiful flow of time and space, like a dry landscape garden expressing the sense of life and the world of impermanence, and made me realize that the past, death, and decay express life more richly, and are the foundation of our future, life, and creation.
I created this work because I felt that "beauty" exists between the circulation and exchange of values between what disappears and what is newly born.
By burning cedar wood boards, which are fragments of life, I meant the birth of new life, and by the regular and irregular splashes I expressed the originality of the one and only life, and by the changes in gradation and texture I pursued the flow of time and space.
I feel that this flow is what I want to pursue, what I want to leave behind forever, and the meaning of life.
