photo by Musashi Shimamura 

Life is Short, Fall in Love! 命短し恋せよ乙女

Swimming in the dark

100×150 cm linen canvas, acrylic, ink, cotton thread, UV-vernish
100×150 cm cotton canvas, acrylic, ink, cotton thread, cotton yarn

Life is Short, Fall in Love! miniseries

12×6cm Linen fabric, hand-embroidery with yarn

Fallen leaves2 落ち葉2

 
40×55 cm
linen canvas, dye with fallen leaves arong Landwehr river-Beech/Oak/Platanas, green tea leaves, iron mordant, cotton thread, acrylic, UV-vernish

Fallen leaves1 落ち葉1

Petrified wood (Fossilized wood)
珪化木 (石化木)

 
40×55 cm
linen canvas, dye with fallen leaves arong Landwehr river-Beech/Oak/Platanas, green tea leaves, iron mordant, cotton thread, acrylic, UV-vernish
The ambiguity, mystery, fragility, and strength of nature.
-The Wonder of Leaves
As the temperature drops, the trees begin to prepare to store energy for the winter.
The leaf chloroplasts are absorbed as nutrients by the tree, and the leaves lose their green color.
Gradually, the yellow carotenoids that the trees originally had begin to show themselves, and autumn begins.
Glucose, which is no longer absorbed due to the drop in temperature, combines with anthocyanidins to produce red anthocyanins. Red leaves.
Eventually, both the yellow and red color are broken down to produce tannin, an astringent component, and the color turns brown.
We have been waiting for this tannin.
I collected fallen leaves along the river and boiled them. I dyed the canvas and threads and mordanted them with rust from nails.

-Petrified wood (Fossilized wood)
Trees that were buried by water, sediment, or volcanoes for some reason in ancient times are replaced by stones over a vast period of time.

The pressure exerted by the earth's strata causes groundwater containing silicic acid, a compound of silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen, to enter the tree's cellular tissue, transforming the tree into a substance called silicon dioxide (silica) without changing its original form, which hardens and becomes fossilized in the same manner as quartz and crystal.

The cycle of nature, the secrets and wonders hidden in it.

落ち葉 1
珪化木 (石化木)

40×55 cm
麻キャンバス、草木染め ランドヴェア川沿の落ち葉-ブナ-オーク-プラタナス、緑茶の茶葉、鉄媒染、綿糸、アクリル絵の具、UVバーニッシュ

自然が持つ曖昧さ、不思議さ、儚さ、強さ。

-葉の不思議
気温が下がると木は冬に備えエネルギーを蓄える支度を始める。
葉の葉緑体は木の栄養素として吸収され、緑色がなくなっていく。
次第に元々持っていた黄色のカロテノイドが顔を出す、秋のはじまり。
気温低下で吸収しきれなくなったグルコースがアントシアニジンと結合し、赤色のアントシアニンが作られる。
紅葉。
やがて黄色も赤も分解され、渋味成分のタンニンが生成され茶色となる。
川沿いの落ち葉を集めて煮込んだ。
キャンバスと糸を染めて釘の錆で媒染をした。

-珪化木(石化木)
古代に何らかの原因で水や土砂、火山などに埋もれた樹木が、膨大な年月をかけ石に代わっていく木。
地層からかかる圧力により木の細胞組織の中にケイ素と酸素、水素との化合物であるケイ酸を含有した地下水が入り込むことによって、樹木が原型を変えずに二酸化ケイ素(シリカ)という物質に変化することで、石英や水晶などと同様に固くなり、化石化したもの。

自然のサイクル、そこに潜む秘密と不思議。

CYCLE 02

Wolfswarte

160cm×100cm,  linen canvas, ink, watercolor,  acrylic color, charcoal, embroidery with cotton thread

CYCLE 01

150cm×100cm,  linen canvas, ink, watercolor,  acrylic color, charcoal, embroidery with cotton thread, UV-varnish

CYCLE 00


Incomplete/不完全 2023

charcoal on paper

Incomplete flower - Nigella - 2023

charcoal on paper

Incomplete flower 2023

charcoal on paper

collabo with SOUL OBJECTS

THE ANALOGUE APE アナログ類人猿

30cm×30cm, acrylic color, embroidery with cotton thread, twill cotton fabric

Jugemu Hand-embroidered Military Shirts 寿限無刺繍アーミーシャツ

secondhand military cotton shirt,  hand-embroidery with cotton thread

Emotions 感情 2023

40cm×40cm, acrylic color, embroidery with gold thread, twill cotton fabric
10cm×10cm, acrylic color, embroidery with gold/blue thread on canvas

Sound 音 2023

65cm×65cm, embroidery with black cotton thread, ink, watercolor, twill cotton fabric

Skome 煙 2022

55cm×55cm/15cm×15cm, three layer of cotton fabric, acryl, black cotton thread

◯△◻︎ Nobody’s perfect まるさんかくしかく 2022

50cm×50cm, paint with acrylic color, embroidery with cotton thread, cotton fabric

White(Black) is (not) Black (White)

白(黒)は黒(白)である(ない) 2022

Series of BALANCE

20cm×40cm, white cotton, black linen, acrylic color, cotton thread

Series of BALANCE

バランスシリーズ 2022


Natural dye

The color emerge from what wasn’t expected. Natural color makes natural gradation and fluctuations,
those unstable colors make you feel that you are living.
Colors natural dyed with things collected from restaurants in Berlin and friends.
予期せぬものから色が顔を出す
揺らぎを含んだ色素は美しく、不安定に目の前に現れ私達に今を生きているい事を思い出させる
野菜の皮、コーヒーカス、ベルリンのレストランや友人から集めたもので染める色

2021

Phase and Phaseless

The nature of beings that have a figure/shape and
the existence that is made to appear by the figure/shape.
Phenomenon and psychology.
The true appears through the form. 
The shape that appear as phenomenon.

有相無相

有相無相 … 姿・形を持っている存在と、

姿・形によって出現させられた存在の本性。

現象と心理。


Series of Impermanent flower

諸行無常フラワーシリーズ 2021