Light and shadow inside me
2021, Aqueous dye on paper

“Fold a single painting and expose it to the sun. Light and shadow result. Where the sun shines, colors fade, but shadowy parts are protected.
This work, reminiscent of an impressionist painting, is a painting made with itself.
Painting, three-dimensional form, and solar burn as a primitive element in photography: these things unite and create, along with intermittent sun.”

This series features gradations created by allowing bright green water-based dye to fade in a very specific way.
First, the dye is applied to a sheet of paper. The sheet is then folded into a prism, which is exposed to the sun over a period of weeks or months. The faces on the prism that receive the most sunlight fade dramatically, while those that remained largely in shadow remain a vivid green. The paper is then unfolded to reveal the finished gradation.
As the title hints, it is the prisms themselves that create the shadows, but the factors that cause the resulting gradations are not easy to imagine when the sheet of paper is unfolded and displayed as a flat work. This series is a pointed reminder that our way of comprehending existence unavoidably becomes multifaceted through environment and circumstance.

Quoted from a handout of “EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021)