My practice is an attempt to perceive all phenomena as part of a single continuum—in other words, as a gradation—and to explore the forms of equilibrium that emerge within it. At its foundation is a creative principle I call the “Three Visual Principles※.”

The Three Visual Principles are composed of Black & White, Color, and Ma. Through these three elements, I seek to visualize clear polarities, the possibility of transition between them, and the space that allows them to coexist. Using this principle as a guide, I explore the state of “awai,” in which opposing elements coexist without canceling one another out.

In my practice, I use a wide range of materials, including acrylic paint, oil paint, sumi ink, resin, mineral pigments, soil, metal, wood, wax, foil, glass, clay, and moss, while incorporating processes such as melting, oxidation, and changes caused by heat.
As the materials transform, react, and interfere with one another, I observe these processes and allow the inherent properties and traces of time within each material to remain in the work.

What emerges through this process is not merely a simple change in form or texture.
Elements such as hardness and softness, transparency and opacity, light and shadow, generation and collapse do not remain clearly divided; instead, they influence one another and gradually form a single state.

I call this relational field that arises between things “awai.”
It is not simply an intermediate space or a gap, but an ambiguous realm where different textures, colors, and reactions coexist while retaining their differences.

The equilibrium I seek is a state in which different elements coexist temporarily within this “awai,” without fully leaning toward one side or the other. It is a dynamic equilibrium that exists while containing change, tension, and fluctuation.

For me, creation is not the act of unilaterally projecting my own will onto a work.
It is an act of observing the relationship between materials and phenomena, receiving the changes, tensions, and fluctuations that arise there, recording the process, and allowing it to settle into a single state.

And a work of art is, from the perspective of perceiving all things as gradations, something that captures the “awai” appearing within the continuum of phenomena, and preserves as form a fragment of equilibrium that has temporarily emerged there.

※Three Visual Principles: A creative principle composed of Black & White, Color, and Ma. Please refer to the PDF for more details.