TOKYO borrowed scenery

Artist's Message

We feel happy when everything in our field of vision seems important. I paint by adding to the canvas what I most want to paint the day, filling every corner of the screen with the most important parts of the paintings. I took the idea of “borrowed scenery” from Japanese gardens and extended that world outside of the painting. In this room, everything from the desk to the trash can complements each other. I further aimed to extend this to the view of Tokyo outside the window. Unlike the beauty of the natural world, which consists of simple regularities, I saw the diversity of the human nest, and I thought it was beautiful too. This ceiling painting is made up of 143 “water surface paintings” drawn by hotel employees and guests. Looking up from the bed, no two water surfaces are the same. This room is covered with “a world that does not aim to be one, but to be one”. The artwork “TOKYO borrowed scenery” is a world where inclusion is realized, where nature, the city, people, and everything in sight seems to be important.

The borrowed scenery of a Japanese garden also offers the pleasure of capturing the changing natural scenery that can only be seen at that particular moment. This “TOKYO borrowed scenery” will be completed when guests capture the present state of Tokyo.