Stones are familiar to humans since ancient times. They have been used for a variety of purposes, such as arrowheads, fire-starting tools, and stone chambers. However, we rarely contemplate the time that the stones themselves must have experienced. From lava erupting from the Earth's interior to their current form, they must have been exposed to the elements and rolled around for hundreds of millions of years. By touching upon the history of such stones, I attempted to immerse myself in a dense worldview, while once again imagining the earth in today's concrete-covered world.

The stones that appear in the video retain their detail, but they don't simply appear as rigid, solid objects. Rather, they are presented as transparent fluids that constantly change their appearance while maintaining the overall composition of the screen. Water and the flow of time have a strong affinity, as is often the case in metaphors, and this transparency contributes to the viewer's immersion in the image. Furthermore, in order to increase the density that facilitates immersion, it is necessary to eliminate symmetry and centrality, a point that the artist has learned from abstract expressionist painters such as Rothko and Pollock.

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January 2018: Work exhibited in Musashino Art University Degree Show 2018