Whenever I execute my printing, I always begin with small drawings. Looking at shapes of objects around me, including photos, printed matter and so on, I draw simply according to some standards set by myself, such as one-stroke drawings, two-tone lineal drawings and so on. I t takes only a second or so to finish one drawing. My drawings are just like the fragments of daily life, which exists as it is and understanding it is irrelevant. To render finished prints from my drawings, it is necessary to go through several processes such as leaving them for some time, selecting shapes from a plentitude of drawings, making preparation for the woodblocks, and preparing them to be printed in a pressing machine. The distance between the shapes I select, and myself separates farther and farther, according to those processes.
When I maintain a certain distance from shapes, my artwork is completed. Additionally, in my collage works, which I embarked on recent years, shapes of both colored, cut-out paper, and its residue co-exist, but exhibit a certain distance from each other. I think that measuring distance between objects and myself, as well as between one object to another, is the way I execute my art.