Traveling Sketchbook: Airport waiting

Another layover at Washington D.C. Dulles International Airport.

Traveling Sketchbook: Seattle Airport in the evening

A few hours of layover at the Seattle Airport. I sat and watched the planes come and go as the night slowly fell. The air craft right front of me started to unload the baggages to the side, and its passengers to the other. Steadily, and quite rutinely.

Traveling sketchbook: Ken's Bakery

Portland Day 3. Super dilicious quiches they've got. Big open windows and great relaxed atmosphere.

Traveling sketchbook: a blue lighter

Traveling sketchbook: Will's room

Traveling sketchbook: Trip to Oregon Day 2

a view of and from the balcony, Portland, OR

marriage

A wedding gift for a good friend of mine. Pen & ink composition on two sheets of mylar, sandwiched together in between two sheets of plexiglass. (24"x36")

habitual activity no.1

A diagram of a highly habitual human activity.

wire drawing on a wall

A new style of "drawing" I've been experimenting on the walls of my studio.

Video

This summer I am taking a course for video art that was designed for painting students. We learn the brief history of video art half the time, and for the rest of the time we learn how to make videos ourselves by actually making them. This one here is a piece I worked on most recently, entitled "Lifelong Journey, big headed days."(02'30")

Thought on Toyako G8 Summit 2008

This year's G8 Summit has been taken place on the island in Northern Japan where I'm from. Though I'm in Savannah, being so far away from Hokkaido physically, I'd never felt so attached or paid so close attention to this annual event before this time around.

8 out of 10

This project was my attempt to locate the subconscious. (if there's such a thing as my subconscious, after all.)
From top left to bottom right, 1-8. Ink on mylar.

I want to capture the werewolf and work out the way to work with him. He seems to be somewhere and always in between each of these drawings.
I think I know where he is, but I cannot grasp him.

finding subconscious

A drawing of mushrooms done from life layerd on top of a drawing done of it.

lettuce leaves

Spring, 2008

Another experimental piece I made while thinking of the layers of mediation processes within the system of our perception.
...more or less, big headed.

three mushrooms

Spring, 2008

Three Shiitake mushrooms being observed and studied from many different angles repeatedly. This is rather a visual note/ sketch of my then current thoughts.

an experiment of landscape cut-out

April, 2008
I wanted to explore and experiment more on the ideas of 'layers' on different levels. This is a piece, with which I attempted to apply additional layers to a composition by physically layering pieces of vellum, that had some sections and shapes been cut out, on top of one another.

work space

April, 2008

One of the first paintings I made after returning back from Europe. It's an on-sight drawing/painting of my studio space. (Ink on museum board.)

Arles

One of the eleven drawings done under the same theme of 'layers.' This depicts my experience of visiting the town of Arles.

Pen & Ink, 40 x 120cm

Lacoste on Paris

The landscape of Lacoste is painted on top of the drawing of Paris' cityspace. The '"layered' images here represent the layers of my experiences in France.

Morning and Afternoon

The two views of the valley back to back.

"Layers of Paris" Final ver.

This is the final look of "Layers of Paris." I added the bottom part later, and the wee top one on the day before the opening of the show. (!)