The completed jigsaw puzzle is pasted on lumber, primed, sprinkled with shells, lacquered over and over, and polished to express the universe. PUZZLE×URUSHI×ART=TRUTH For the past several years, he has been working with jigsaw puzzles as supports. No two pieces are the same, and none of them would be complete without the other. One day, I tried painting lacquer on it. The entire piece was dyed black. The puzzle, which until then I had only been aware of as a single picture in its entirety, looked completely different. It is a strange thing that when you look at it closely, it begins to look like a group of people. The puzzle is an aggregate of different things, each piece is an individual to the world, a cell to the people, much like a subatomic particle to everything else in the world. There doesn't seem to be anything to say. There is no concrete shape, no color, nothing. There are only abstract thoughts and feelings. I believe that by expressing them as material beauty, we can approach the truth of this world.
