While executing my work entitled “Sawachi-e (painting),” for example, what I intended to paint, firstly, was a whale because I was influenced by the old movie “Moby-Dick or the White Whale.” However, I gave up on the idea of the whale, as I couldn’t paint “Moby-Dick” directly. I even forgot about the whale as the theme of my painting, then started to think about the diet of C. Fourier. Finally, my theme settled on Sawachi Dishes. The view of Sawachi Dishes, which is sorted on a feast-sized plate without any distinction between the appetizer and the main dish, reminds me of a fragment of a piece of something massive. It represents a kind of expectation for the universality of the world which consists of various things. When a feast is in full swing, its purpose is lost into oblivion and the relationship between the host(s) a nd t he g uests b ecomes m eaningless a s d oes the distinction among human beings, food and other living organisms. Though it is difficult to evoke the entire view of a gigantic whale only by savoring one fragmental bite of the delicious food, I can still conjure up the image of a “whale,” lying on a dish for the feast. In this way, I always face such a conundrum between my initial intent and its realization. This problem is never solved but, sometimes, these two things can be made to coexist. This is the secret of creating art.