Concept
I was born a human, and have lived as a woman. Having given birth and raising my children, I am constantly reminded of the wonders of passing life into the future.
I frequently superimpose images of biological mechanisms and budding plant-life into the motifs of my paintings. And, in this ephemeral time that passes minute by minute, never to return, I am seized with the urge to paint the “present,” the very warmth of life.
Esquisses do not carry a special weight for me. Instead, I try to cherish images that proliferate from my many impulses and ideas.
Occasionally, I face each of the motifs I am painting, and, each time, I start drawing by following the lines of the indiscernible forms that are still vague in my mind.
The following steps are always unforeseeable, constantly making me wonder how tenuous this task is. But even then, I see new forms emerge in the completed works. I believe that it is from this tenuousness that beings in the depths of my unconscious can be gathered and woven into more concrete existences. That is why I treasure the phenomena that appear from within.
Recently, I produce works that are less suggestive of the passing of time, to relay the sense of “living in the present.” I will continue to pursue new developments in my practice, cherishing my concept, “the warmth of life.”