Hideyuki NAGASAWA – translated by Jaime Humphreys A photo of my parents. Both my mother, who was 26 when the photo was taken, and my father, who was 28, are younger than I am now. Their gaze is turned to me in the present, as I begin to gr…
Is it possible to communicate with the dead?Even if impossible in a physical sense, is it not possible to bring about a psychic space for communication, such as that created by itako[ 1] at Mount Osore [2] ?While attentive to the distant e…
I’m interested in surface and depth within painting. Let me explain the process I use to make my paintings. Firstly, I paint a figure (in this case, a skull) on the canvas, after which I place many small dots of different colors that corre…
All human figures that appear in paintings are ghosts. They are images of the dead. Why is it that paintings invite such spirits? Why is it that the deceased appear within the picture frame? In Mugen Noh (fantasy Noh), the dead appear on…
These are my works in watercolor.My theme of those works is “surface and the depth”, and I tried to express it in watercolor. At first I spread different watercolors on the paper using water.After drying, I placed the dots from small to l…