FUSION

 　（Mixture of Analog Painting & Digital Production. Up to2005)

　　Based on the data I make by scanning my own analog paintings such

　　as drawings, collage, monotype and mixed media,

　　I create one work through the computer. My works travel freely from

　　anolog to digital paintings and integrate various drawing media to one

　　work : I don't use my analog paintings on the computer for the purpose

　　of creating mock images. I respect each characteristics of the analog

　　paintings and when processing on the computer, I leave their material

　　feelings and textures as traces. This computer process enables me to

　　create unique paintings with mingled colors and complicated textures,

　　which is inexpressible only by analog paintings. For the final output,

　　I select the most suitable media for the data out of various printing

　　paper, Japanese paper, watercolor paper, and canvases, then print with

　　a full-sized pigment-based inkjet printer.

　　“Plural Composition Work” is the way I display my works on the wall.

　　I divide one work into several panels and make small spaces between

　　each one of them which I accurately calculate. In this way, I hope to

　　create“Ma”(sense of expansion and continuation) which enables one to

　　have diversified perspectives to my work. The wall itself can function as

　　a part of the work.　“Ma”is the application of “Fusuma-e” (paintings

　　on Japanese sliding doors, which originated in China) structure.

　　Fusuma-e usually consists of more than four pieces of doors.

　　In Fusuma-e structure great emphasis is put on the use of spaces

　　which gives paintings dynamism and dimensions.

　　The purpose of my works is not searching for a new mode of art, but

　　giving flexibility to the frame of the art that we now have.

　　The way I create works is also my interpretation of analog paintings

　　from the viewpoint of digital paintings.