utopia series. Paintings expressing a world of ephemeral light shimmering in the darkness. Another world of shadows created from shining white sculptures. The same shape can be imagined just by reversing the black and white. Whether it is a star or a month, a new moon or a full moon, a window frame or a building... the viewer's background changes the way it looks, and this ambiguity is also appealing. It is a gray zone that is neither black nor white. In a sense, it is a utopia. That is why I named it Utopia. When I paint, I like to use a lot of coincidental expressions, as if I am randomly combining elements of various concepts and playing with them while composing them on the screen. It is an outpouring of something with a primitive and childish physicality before it is verbalized by reason. As one or two of these small, disparate paintings are stacked one on top of the other, they begin to flow together like a story. The production of paintings, which differ in form from the usual three-dimensional works, has just begun. I cannot wait to see what direction these small paintings will take and what kind of world they will depict in the future. Just as three-dimensional elements have been transferred to the plane, all that has been cultivated on the plane will one day be brought into three-dimensional modeling. Just as with three-dimensional modeling, another institution has emerged in which the work itself begins to circulate naturally. Collagraph Collagraph is a collagraph that uses various materials as plates, such as brass parts of old watches and pieces of wood. The collagraph is a one-of-a-kind work that cannot be reproduced or duplicated in the same way as a print because it is a technique that takes advantage of the coincidence of the combination of multiple plates. Material: Oil on watercolor paper. Original size: 148mm x 100mm (postcard size) Signed on the back ・Frame size: Height 23.5cm, width 28.5cm, thickness 2cm, weight 450g ・About the frame We use custom-made frames made by a frame shop in Kyoto, which are made of wood with a hardening process. For each painting sold, sales of other paintings will be temporarily suspended until the frames arrive. (The estimated time to start selling is two weeks. If you wish to purchase more than one painting, please contact us in advance. This work is for sale in stores, so it may be sold out even if it is still available online, depending on the timing. Please understand in that case. interior, black and white, city, house, building, fantasy, art, small picture, small picture, painting, painting, life with pictures, life with art, art