Various feelings are evoked by natural and social phenomena which appear and disappear in our daily lives, and then they overlap one another and create an original configuration. In due course it acquires colors, forms, lines, and become a certain personified and socialized illusion.

 I produced the recent works called ‘Lost Shape Series’ with anger, grief, and frustration, and visualized these feelings as marks engraved on the inorganic copperplates to express my strange images and metaphors. I think that my art is the beauty lying between the real and the unreal, that is, ‘Beauty in the Gap.’

I use technics such as etching and aquatint which are not unusual for many artists, but when making color copperplate prints, I always try to create a feeling of transparency, brightness, and tranquility of color. And by using collage of gold and silver sheets, I produce a metallic texture as well as decorative flavor. In this way my particular combination of color and surface texture create some optical effects impossible with printing ink in a factory.

 Handmade washi (Japanese paper) used for the works are of my own making. The one side of the paper is made of mitsumata and the other side made of kōzo. Watermarks are put in the paper and dyed fibers fill in them. The texture of washi; exquisite shading of watermarks; color of dyed fibers; pressed marks and images on the copperplates; all of them resonate with one another and create one world.