My father was a potter, and I was also a frequent drawer from an early age, as I was surrounded by a variety of art forms, including music, movies, and art books. Among them, the cool skeleton designs on record jackets had a great influence on me at that time. Later, I began drawing in earnest, but I sometimes felt anxious because of unfamiliar feelings about life and death that I had not felt as a child, and the skeleton motifs I had been drawing before gradually came to be perceived in my mind as anxious and dark images. Wanting to change something, I decided to try to express the feeling of life and death in a different and prettier form than before. As I drew the skeleton-faced pendulum of life and death (skull-kun), which is a symbol of death, my own vague anxiety about death also began to fade away.
