日循的風景

Yuki Sakuta draws artworks based on things that remain in her mind, Fairy tales, Mythology, Novels, and Music that she heard a long time ago. It seems to relive the memory of the character in the story. But it is impossible to share memories of others perfectly.

Sakuta expresses the fuzzy image of memories with trees and flowers in the abstract silhouette.

She uses words that she doesnʼt know from novels, lyrics, and characters of fairy tales or mythology. When she gives the title of the artwork, she tries unique spaces of picture and color.

Mariko Ohashi uses collage as a method to visualize time, presenting a multi-layered, folded world of images. Ohashi's works, in which multiple lines are drawn as if to imprint traces of hands, are not paintings as simple images, but rather gimmicks that make us think about painting as an object or physical trace, and about the existence of time and our relationship to it. It is precisely in this age of digitalization and the loss of our physicality that Ohashi's paintings have the power to provoke us to think about materials, painting, and the body

Yuta Ikehara creates works with the theme of reincarnation. He depicts a world in which animals and plants that represent the natural world, noise, and artifacts that symbolize human society are mixed.

By collaging watercolors, photos, and textures, Ikehara utilizes expressions that everything is circulating in a big tide.

Due to the development of infrastructure in modern society, vast amounts of knowledge, technology, and experience are widely transmitted across national borders, and information sharing is accelerating.

Quoted from Ikehara, "I feel that too much information is hiding facts and undermining the power to think about things. I think that a superficial behavior like scooping an oil slick floating on the water surface will not always reach the essence."

Things are always in flux. The inability to maintain identity also means repeating life and death. Culture, history, and values are born from the background of the land and life. Such collective wisdom cannot be achieved only by death or disappearance, but by being inherited by the next life.

In the information society, shortsighted consumption due to oversupply can only have a one-sided disappearance aspect and does not lead to global creation. Ikehara thinks that death is able to be meaningful because of rebirth and that repetition is salvation.

Yuta Ikehara thinks everything is in the process of decline and regeneration, and I find value in that process. In a modern society where true value tends to be hard to see, I create works by thinking about what I need to do.