”Surrender to the universe” is my philosophy.
I try to surrender my process to nature as much as possible because humans are too small compared to it.
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I brought a large piece of canvas to Kanai Kogei, the natural dyeing studio in Amami-Oshima, Japan. Unexpectedly, I put a canvas on the freshly boiled Rhaphiolepis umbellata dye that was in the studio and left it in a mud field. A month later, I visited Amami-Oshima again and washed away mud in the sea and river of Amami-Oshima. The canvas that left the process to Amami-Oshima showed a new expression.
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You can appreciate both the front and back of this work.
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2017～　Associate professor, Kagoshima Prefectural College, Kagoshima, Japan
2012～2017　Assistant Professor, Kagoshima Prefectural College, Kagoshima, Japan
2010～2012　Research Assistant, Yokohama College of art and design, Yokohama, Japan
2005～2007　Graphic Designer, Asahi Advertising Inc., Tokyo, Japan
2005　Bachelor (Engineering), Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoyo, Japan
1981　Born in Ishikawa, Japan