Untitled Hiraeth
Untitled Hiraeth
Artist: Kosuke Yumoto
Size: 355×355mm
Materials: Acrylic paint, Posca, silver leaf, modeling paste, gloss varnish, wooden panel
Artist Profile:
The things I value when creating art are "scenery," "reverence for nature," "time," "light," and "the viewer."
In my late twenties, I became visually impaired. An encounter with a contemporary artist made me realize that there are things only I can see. I strive to share the experience of how everyone sees the world differently, and what I feel.
Having worked as an anime background artist, I understand the importance of creating a unique world. By focusing and drawing this sensibility onto a square canvas, I try to give depth to my expression using the "space and worldview" effect that a square possesses. While treating the painting as an independent landscape, I also give it the role of a "background" where the painting changes for each viewer (the protagonist).
I value expressing the beauty of the sea and the reverence for nature that I experienced while living on Niijima in the Izu Seven Islands. By consciously expressing texture, I imbue the resulting "materiality and presence" with the role of "vitality and time." I want viewers to feel the present moment, every second of it.
About the artwork:
I have to go back, but I don't know how to get there.
You and the scenery that live in my dreams.
Gradually, I'm forgetting how to get there.
I can't even remember your face.
[The Morning of the Sorcerer Despairing in a Dream]