About the title

The "HANABI" series

The motif of my art work is light and shadow.

The ever changing attitudes of lights that disappears and appears continuously. Believing that one moment of brightness will last forever and I tried to relate that moment as the shining moment of women's life and I named it "HANABI" the Fireworks

Foundation and background about the work

My grandmother who was born in 1890 said "Women always lose"

I could not get the true meaning of that phrase until I became an adult.

After getting job I have experienced the toughness of the position where job discrimination is obvious.

Since ancient times, the marriage of women in Japanese society began with submission. My grandmother changed her name as well as her last name after getting married to my grandfather.My mother was told that girls didn't need to be educated. She read the books hiding from their eyes.My aunt unnecessarily bowed and repeated apologies in her lifetime.

How difficult it could have been for those women “to raise their face and stretch their chest" who were forced to work and were not allowed to claim ?

I want to express the feelings of those unknown women who survived those times.

Memory of Fireworks

The day was getting dark when my mother took my hand and abruptly walked out from home.

In the dim light, we walked on the farm road without saying a word, my hand in hers.

Oppressed and controlled - she just wanted to ran away from such traditional home life.

As we approached a downhill, fireworks went up in the sky.

They went up and beautifully lighted up the dim navy blue night,

leaving a moment of ephemerality and a heartache, then disappeared.

But the lights wrapped us and made us forget about everything.

There was nothing more beautiful than the unexpected fireworks that we saw during my young mother's little runaway 60 years ago.

Material, Techniques, Process

I have used acrylic colors and medium.

The colors are lightly painted by using medium in order to expresses the weightless speed and transparency of a swaying heart.

Why did I choose this material?
Because the acrylic colors dry quickly and can express the movement of the mind in a short span of time. Also, it is easier to grab a rhythm with that material.

Meaning of using cloth as a Motif
To express the light that is woven by the shadow of soft cloth,
I was fascinated by the gentleness and beauty of the faint light.

作品タイトル　シリーズ「花火」について

モチーフは光と影。

常に変化し消えては湧きあがる光、その瞬間が永遠につながる事を信じて、

女性たちの瞬間の輝きを、「花火」とした。

作品についての基盤と背景

1890年生まれの祖母は言った。　　　

「女はいつも損をする」

この本当の意味を成人までわからなかった。

就職し、就職差別のなかで立場の厳しさを味わった。

古来、日本社会の女たちの結婚は服従から始まった。

祖母は祖父によって、姓と共に、名も変えられた。

女に教養はいらないと言われ、母はかくれる様にして本を読んだ。

叔母は意味もなく頭を下げ、謝罪を繰り返した。

労働を強要され、主張を許されなかった女にとって、

「顔を上げ、胸を張る」この事がどんなにか難しかったか。

時代を生き抜いた名もなき女たちの息使いを表現したい。

花火の思い出

あたりが暗くなり始める頃、母は衝動的に私を連れ家を出た

わずかな光の中、手を引かれ黙々と農道を歩いた。

日本の古いしきたりの「家族制度」からの抑圧と束縛の日々から逃れたさの一心だった。

下り坂ににさしかかった時、花火があがった。

紺青の夜の薄明りの中、華々しく咲き、

はかなさと切なさを一瞬残し、消えてしまった。

しかし、その光は私達を包み込み、すべてを忘れさせてくれた。

６０年前若い母の小さな家出で出会った花火ほど美しいものはなかった。

素材、技法　制作過程

キャンバスにアクリル絵の具とメディウムを使用。　　絵の具は薄塗り。

軽々としたスピード感とメディウムによる透明感によって、心のゆれを重くならず表現。

なぜ、この素材を選ぶのか

アクリルの場合乾燥が早く、短時間で心の動きが早く表現でき、リズムがとりやすい。

布をモチーフにした意味

やわらかい布の陰影が織りなす光、

その溶け込み沁みる微光のやさしさと美しさにひかれた。