THE BOOK OF TEA

Okakura Tenshin once said that "Japan's aesthetic sense was perfected between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods." He believed that the new values ??and concepts brought to Japan by the engineers and monks who came to Japan when the Southern Song Dynasty fell in the 13th century completed Japan's aesthetic sense. This recognition also shows that "aesthetic sense" is influenced by social changes.

On the other hand, the digital innovation that has progressed over the past 30 years has greatly changed the state of normative consciousness that is the basis of values ??and concepts. This change comes with the transition from an era in which people internalized discipline through the transmission of stories to an era in which people follow systems prompted by a controlled environment.

When I look at old Japanese paintings that are said to depict "wabi-sabi" and "resignation," I feel a certain premonition.
The "beauty" seen by people with internalized standards in the past and the "beauty" seen by us who are now forced to follow standards through control are perceived through different "aesthetic sensibilities." If so, how will people in the future see that "beauty"? I began making this series with the desire to depict this premonition.