I work in a metaphorical way, like the dry landscape garden style, where I liken shapes to something, just as pebbles and gravel are likened to nature, to create pictorial space. Rather than painting an object, I use shapes to create forms. The objects can be landscapes, people, still lifes, and all sorts of other objects, and I use the space between them as a hint to construct my work. The important thing is not the shapes or the objects I paint, but the space between the objects. The scenes using shapes are merely a starting point, and I want to see something beyond them. I hope to use the mechanisms of painting to touch a spiritual world. Rather than abstracting something, I will use abstractions to construct a concrete space. What I want to express is "pure shapes and space" rather than emotion or feeling. The form can be painting, sculpture, installation, or any form. I consider my job to be about recreating everyday spaces that can be found anywhere into a form that can be called art.
