To the exhibition ”Quo Vadis 2010｜Temperare 2023”
The blotchy black, characteristic of drypoint, adrift. The title QuoVadis, which means 'Where are you going', comes from the name of a small church in Rome that I visited on a backpacking trip as a student. It was 2010, when mobile phones continued to evolve and we were beginning to enter an era where information from all over the world could be stored in our hands and everyone could become a media. Somehow, I felt the presence of human beings drifting back and forth between the boundary worlds of reality and virtuality, and I compared the shape of the blotches to people's lives, pasting layers and layers of prints on thin Japanese paper printed. Quo Vadis is a series of works completed as a graduation project, but the unprecedented disaster that hit Japan in March, just before graduation, changed the quality and weight of this title and made it a question to myself afterwards. 　After completing the course, my creation environment changed, and I changed my method of expression to drawings, monotypes and oil paintings, switching from needle to pen and brush. My interest gradually shifted to the inner workings of the figure of blotchiness and its occurrence, and I began to focus on the larger phenomenon of the interconnection of life as my subject matter. This is where I came across the word “temperare”. -The etymology of both temperature and temperament can be traced back to the Latin word temperare, which means 'to mix'. We reflect the world and the world reflects us, just as we can compare the aspect of a person's mind to the seasonal sky. By breathing, walking, eating, sleeping and living, we are always mixing with the world. - (Extract from the solo exhibition 'temper', 2021) 　 　I am confronted with images as a way of understanding the wonder of my existence in this chaotic world. So, then where are you going?