Concept

Title: A PATH TO BLUE SKY

I wonder if the time of a hundred years is the longest time span through which one is able to realize the linkage with one’s own root by actually tracing it.
On the other hand, it means there is also difficulty to pass on memories beyond the limit of 100 years.
On this occasion, I wanted to create a piece of work which would serve as a standard or scale to measure time for the succession of memories of people.
“A path to blue sky” was painted, while thinking about the importance and difficulty of passing on memories over the generations, to represent the time flow and the succession of human feelings since that summer day when people were deprived instantly of routine life until today where we live and which leads to the coming future, just like the white cloud spreading in blue sky.
Moreover, as blue color of the wall, I chose the color which I believe to be the closest to that of sky at 8:15 am on the day of atomic bombing, August 6 1945. Certain portions are modeled after the coastline of Hiroshima.
The patterns resembling labyrinths are those I have employed for many years, being the forms resulting from the accumulation of brushstrokes linked with cherished memories. For me, painting a pathway is like travel for tracing memories.
I am wishing with my whole heart that people living in 2045 shall be able to look up to the clear blue color that will make them feel real beauty.

Profile

Born in 1966, originated from Onomichi-shi, Hiroshima-ken. Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in 1995. Currently resident of Kanazawa-shi.
In order to retain the memories of his wife and sister having passed away prematurely, he creates the installations using the salt which evokes purification or ablution. He devotes many hours on his own to complete his installations, tracing huge patterns on floor. He implements projects in which, on the final day of exhibition, he destroys his installation together with viewers and returns the salt to sea. Moreover, in addition to elaborate drawings and mural paintings, he is recently developing energetically his activities also by setting out collaboration with business enterprises. He has exhibited a great number of his works throughout the world, including: Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA P.S.1; State Hermitage Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Hakone Open-Air Museum; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa; Setouchi Triennale’s; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, etc.