The "high road" is not a road that someone else has built for you, but a road that you must take. Even if many difficulties lie ahead of us in this darkness, we can step forward strongly because we have the determination and resolve to cut through all of them. I put emphasis on how to express in my own way the atmosphere and impression that I feel from the motif, rather than the appearance as I see it, and by exaggerating, altering, and imagining, I extract a new charm that does not exist in reality. By using a painting knife instead of a brush, I try to express the impression I get from the subject more intuitively.
