My work begins with the uncertainty of perception, holding a quiet center that cannot be fully grasped.
私は 物事の認識のしきれなさ、不確実性を起点として絵画作品を制作しています。
Light view
“Light view” is a painting that contemplates reflected light.
The reflected light appears as a fiction without physical substance.
To look at reflected light is to look at something that does not exist here.
Yet every image depicted in painting is, in essence, a fiction.
Even so, I—as the subject who looks—and the painting as a material object certainly exist here.
Through the duality of fiction and reality inherent in painting, their overlapping structure gives rise to a moment in which fiction and reality intersect, producing a particular sense of time and reality.
At that moment, what is it that we are actually seeing?
Through the act of looking, I attempt to physically sense and reflect upon that experience.
Light view
「Light view」は、映り込む光を眺める絵である。
映る光は、実体を持たない虚構として立ち現れる。
映る光を見つめることは、ここには存在しないものを見つめること。
しかし、絵画において描かれたイメージは、本来すべて虚構である。
それでも、見つめる主体としての私と、物質としての絵画は確かにここに存在している。
絵画のもつ虚と実の両義性。それらが重なり合う構造によって、虚実が交錯する時間と現実が生まれる。
そのとき、私（たち）は何を見ているのか。
見つめることを通して、その感覚を体感し、思考することを試みている。
Against the Light
I create paintings that appear dazzling and difficult to see—though in reality they are neither dazzling nor obscure.
My work begins with a question: are the things we see, and even our own existence, truly certain? I paint subjects that seem familiar to us—family members, friends, and simple still lifes such as fruit. These motifs are illuminated from behind; they are backlit.
Within the pictorial space, what lies behind them is presumably bright and clearly visible. Yet from the position of the viewer in real space, the subjects appear as shadows—dark and indistinct. We can never see their fully illuminated forms.
Even the people and objects we believe we know well are never entirely visible, nor entirely understood. We move through the world without perceiving everything, and in this sense we are both clever and foolish.
Painting itself is a fiction that exists in reality—an ambiguous presence that moves between the real and the unreal. Although the depiction of life-size motifs blurs the boundary between dimensions and invites immersion, painting simultaneously asserts its absolute flatness, a space into which the viewer can never enter.
Through this duality of reality and fiction, my work reflects on the ambiguous and uncertain nature of our existence.