原料から紙を作っています。
自作の紙に描いています。
It has been 11 years since I started making papers from my own raw material. I create works on the papers I make.
楮の蒸しがらで….
These are the center core of Kozo stalks left after unbarking.
風呂の焚き付けに当たり前になってるけど、
初めて見た時は綺麗な見たことのない物体でした
It has been a common habit to use them for fire starter by now, but when I saw them for the very first time, I thought they were beautiful.
慣れた作業になってきましたが
知ったつもりになるよりも
初心忘れるべからずと言いますか、
永遠の素人に成り上がる
春の準備と雨の音
地面に滲みて
命
動く
共鳴かな
使う命の
有り難さ
今を氣(波動)にして
かみに宿りて。
Though it has become a familiar work, what I keep telling myself is that I should not think I know things, and retain beginner’s mind, or rather be a beginner forever.
As the sound of the rain and my preparation of spring time
seeps into the ground,
the life moves – a resonance.
How precious is this life I am given
and the Qui, wave of this moment resides in the paper.