Statement

Clothing / Color Adornment / Living

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— Utsutsu wa Gokuraku —

All things exist within a continuous flow.

Within a world that shifts like water,I draw up fleeting moments of kawaii—an intuitive sense of charm—and render them through dyeing and adornment.

Bleeding, fluctuation, and flowing color become traces of life that never remain still.

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Artistic Philosophy

At the core of this practice lies the Buddhist concept of Utsutsu wa Gokuraku—
an affirmation of the present moment,while simultaneously acknowledging the principle of impermanence (shogyō mujō),
in which all things are in constant transformation.

Rooted in an upbringing in a Zen Buddhist temple,
“color” is understood through the concept of shiki soku ze kū—
that is, all phenomena as they are perceived by human senses.
In this context, color is not merely a visual attribute,
but a phenomenological event intertwined with perception, memory, and emotion.

In recent years, particular attention has been given to the behavior of water.
Water possesses no fixed form; it flows, merges, and continuously transforms.
Its nature structurally corresponds to the concept of impermanence.

The bleeding and fluctuations that occur in the dyeing process
contain elements of unpredictability,

emerging through the interaction between control and chance.
These phenomena exist only within temporal transition
and cannot be fixed into a stable form.

From this perspective arises the proposition that
beauty resides in what does not remain.
It is a viewpoint that regards the process of change itself as the aesthetic subject.

Furthermore, what is described as kawaii is not a fixed standard of value,but a perceptual response that momentarily emerges within a state of flux.
It arises through the interaction between external conditions and internal states,and disappears without permanence.

Dyeing is an act of receiving external phenomena,while adornment is an act of reflecting upon the self.
At the intersection of these two processes,transient forms and sensations emerge within a state of flow.

This structure—formed through the interaction between external phenomena and inner perception—is defined as “Bi-logic Expression.”

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