Title : Ganzi
Painting in collaboration with ALICE MORISHITA
Medium : Ink, Acrylic, Coffee, Thangka pigment Thread on Canvas
Size : w70 x 90cm (27.56" x 35.43")
Created : 2019
In 2019, I traveled with my partner and fellow artist, Alice Morishita, to Garzê, a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Sichuan Province, China, to carry out a 21-day project creating art in collaboration with local artists.
After working in the high-altitude environment of Garzê, located at 3,500 meters above sea level, we also held an exhibition in Chengdu, China.
After returning to Berlin, Germany, Alice and I reflected on the experience—what we learned and what we felt—and expressed it through a collaborative art project.
After working in the high-altitude environment of Garzê, located at 3,500 meters above sea level, we also held an exhibition in Chengdu, China.
After returning to Berlin, Germany, Alice and I reflected on the experience—what we learned and what we felt—and expressed it through a collaborative art project.
You can find footage of the creative process in Garzê on YouTube.
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Hendrik Willemyns from the Belgian band Arsenal had put together a poetry book called "Room of Imaginary Creatures" which is a collection of poems written by musicians and poets as part of a project that researches the connection between music, poetry and prostitution. Each poem comes with an illustration and I participated with 5 of my illustrations. I did the illustrations for lyrics sang by the American singer Johnny Whitney (ex: The Blood Brothers).
The poetry collection "Room Of Imaginary Creatures" can be purchased from the following website.
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Title : #3
Collaboration of short film with YUTA KUMACHI
Director, Cinematography, Film Editing by KENSUKE SAITO
Music by YUTA KUMACHI
Time : 11min 53sec
Created : 2017
---- ABOUT FILM #3 CONCEPT ----
I was born in Tokyo and grew up there, but 4 years ago in 2015, I moved to Berlin.
Nature and lakes had never been so close to me in my life before.
As I spent more time at the lake, I began to realize the multiple expressions the nature held.
I began to feel a big wave of life and rhythm through the lake. I also felt a sense of mysticism through it.
I tried to capture the rich expressions the nature held, using the camera and filming the lake.
However, unfortunately it turned out very even and flat. It felt very lifeless, and tasteless.
Later on I returned to the lake to compare the difference between the filmed lake and the real one in front of me.
The real lake had irregularities. It was unpredictable yet rich with its natural rhythms.
The camera on the other hand can only film with the fixed rhythm you set at the beginning.
When you film the lake with a fixed setting, so much of the beauty falls through the fingers like quicksand. The rhythm of the lake is not fixed. In times it flows calmly, and in times it flows faster.
In order to capture the rich expressions of the lake itself, instead of capturing it as a film,
I decided to take sequence of photographs to create a flow using each picture.
I tried to manually put it together in order to create a big beautiful flow.
I felt that this was the best way to capture the rich expression the nature held.