岩野平三郎製紙所さんの7×9尺(約3×2m)の一枚物の手漉き雲肌麻紙に描きました。

水を流して線を消したり、筆で胡粉の線を書き加えたりすることを繰り返すなかで、すーっと、現したかった世界が立体的に浮かび上がってきてくれました。

墨色を背景に有機的な白い線が絡み合い形になっていく私の制作過程は、私にとって水の流れのなかで植物の繊維が絡み合う和紙の制作過程に重なります。

水や風の流れの中で線が絡まり合うように自然に、目には見えないかたちを浮かび上がらせたいという思いも込めて、タイトルを「空を漉く」としています。

"Spin The Current"

Japanese paper, sumi, gohun

I added to and revised a work created in 2015, which was painted on a single sheet of 7 x 9 shaku (about 3 x 2 m) handmade Kumohadapaper by Heizaburo Iwano Paper Mill.

When I opened the work, which had been sitting at my parents' house for a long time, I found that it was rough and had many unnecessary lines, and I wanted to make changes to it.

As I repeatedly erased the lines by pouring water and added lines of gofun with a brush, the world I wanted to express emerged in a more three-dimensional way.

The process of my work, in which organic white lines intertwine and take shape against an ink-colored background, overlaps with the process of making washi paper, which is created by the intertwining of plant fibers in a stream of water.

I am happy that many people resonate with the world and sense of comfort that I feel.

I would be happy if you could actually experience it in front of my work.