July 2026
A Request for "the Same Painting as That One" | Recreation Record 01
2026年7月31日
I was asked to paint "the same picture" as a work I had delivered before. A hand-painted picture can never be born the same way twice. This is a record of the three agreements we made in order to meet that hope anyway, up to the moment I began the underdrawing.
About the Lab: An Attempt to Show What Comes Before Completion
2026年7月19日
For a long time I believed a painting was something you show only at the moment it is finished. Yet before a single painting comes into being, there lies a stretch of time that no one ever sees. Meeting a motif, pausing, trying materials, failing, scraping back, layering again. A painting that looks still when […]