For this term there is a severe situation of the pandemic, so everyone would be hard to deal with practice work or research. For me it’s also disappointing away from the studio and any art shops. I could not create large paintings. However, there are also some good points that one of them is I can have much time to think about art works or anything around me.

City parks
City parks in London became the main motif of my artworks so far. During lockdown I have come to take a walk around my place, whose action has mainly produced the inspiration. The pandemic has made me look back the memory and has put emphasis on ordinary landscapes that I have overlooked before. Therefore, the parks can be my subjects, it places all over the city and changes the atmosphere from downtown.
I’ve painted the landscapes of the majestic nature in Japan, however, it scales down and it can more response to the psychological state and the sensitive situation. I’ve learned the ethos from Adrian Berg who is one of the greatest landscape painters in Britain. We can acquire the intuitive knowledge of the self and its relationship and a source of aesthetic pleasure through art. The modern society has move forward to parochialism, I suppose. However, my artworks aim to only care about such fundamental issues.

Materials: Acrylic paint and Lino block printmaking
I have focused on printmaking during lockdown, I think it can achieve at a good point.
It started since 2018 and I have seriously worked on it from 2020 April lockdown in Japan. I think the print has a good connection with surreal or imaginary situations, In lockdown I was hard to avoid thinking about any fantasy or fiction. That imagination has gradually attached with ordinary landscapes or past memories, so that my prints has been naturally made by the sever situation. Furthermore, it could improve in terms of materials, I have changed from a wood block to a linoleum block that enables me to easily curve very detailed lines. In the U.K. lockdown the style has hugely progressed.
When it comes to painting I have usually made use of Japanese-style painting before coming, so I need to choose other art materials. In that time it came to my mind that acrylic paint is suitable for me, because my style of acrylic paint is to overlay multiple and thin layers with fluid brushstrokes. Japanese-style painting uses wash of colour and requires to construct a lot of layers or unique textures to elevate its quality, so it is very familiar methods for me unlike oil paintings. For a further step I would like to develop skills of acrylic paints because of a little experience and would have a chance to combine other materials such as oil paint or oil pastel.

Pathetic Fallacy and Colour
In 1-2-1 tutorial I heard the words of ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ that the scene reflects on the painter’s emotion. Although my subjects probably scale down, it safe to say that my work could be more emotionally sensitive and could got the sense of ambiguity. I try to depict the typical scenery as the magical realism, and it is also autobiography. The motivation and the inspiration consistently comes from the empirical process, which always reflects on the feeling. In terms of colour it definitely responses to my current situation, so that it is a unstable factor in my paintings. I usually have a plan of anything related to them, however, The use of colour likely changes to interact with the present of the motivation, not with the plan produced in past. To see it as a playful way, the composition and the shape should be solidified in advance. The use of colour is mostly affected by the emotional oscillation. Furthermore, it is structured by numerous thin layers. Therefore, the painting can include the complicated and sensitive phenomenon as it is similar to the ambiguity of the inner state. It would pile up the transition of thinking and feeling.

Escapism and Melancholy
This term gives me to deepen and concrete what I think and paint until now. I have created a lot of artworks, but it is difficult to figure out where the ideas come from. They deeply derive from the psychological meaning rather than sociopolitical issues for sure. So, I have recognized there is the loneliness or rumination that always linger in my minds, which can say as melancholy. This word found out in the title of Munch’s work that convince me the sense of that feeling, and I also found out that morbidity comes from the childhood memory. It means my mother’s death, when I was 5 years old. I could not avoid facing up with the death and the sadness, but, as everyone knows, it can not change or distort that fact. Though I had the depression as ever, I had to escape from the dead end. The lockdown is slightly similar to that situation for me. There are both meaning of the anxiety, the relaxation or solitude in a good way, my work never lack one side of them. The same design of prints has made several pieces that happens the consecutive images of trauma or strange as a horror film, the animation would reflect on the psychological statement in each moment. That repetitive images has a same work as multiple wash layers of my acrylic paints, I suppose. It means I consistently communicate with the work to imbues the essential spirits all the time.