WORKS

This exhibition begins with an interest in the Kamakura period paintings of Nachi Falls, noting that they function as "landscapes" without depicting figures, despite being based on nature worship. To physically confirm the necessity of depicting landscapes in paintings, the artist actually walked the route from Ise Grand Shrine to the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage route, visiting various locations with a map in hand, including mountain passes, terraced rice fields, stone lanterns and signposts, fields, and deep mountains.

The act of photographing places that caught the artist's attention during a walk and collecting soil from those locations is not only an attempt to record the landscape as visual information, but also to incorporate the traces of the place itself into the artwork. In the creation process, the artist aimed to create an expression that, while maintaining the flatness of painting, incorporates layers of actual space and time by using the collected soil in a frame constructed using photographs as a guide.

Each artwork is titled with the specific address and time where the landscape and soil were collected, while the exhibition title uses the venue's location. This connects the individual artworks, the exhibition space, and the artist's walking experience as a continuous geographical and temporal structure. This exhibition re-examines the act of painting landscapes as a sequence of "walking," "collecting," and "fixing," and quietly questions the relationship between place and painting.