Mary

Early Summer Skiing

fireworks

cumulonimbus

six-figure Jizo

TUMUGI

Until one day the colors will be released.

The tree on the earth has not yet borne fruit. But under the earth, the roots of the tree are nourished with a lot of talents. Someday, the talent will bear fruit on the earth, and the world will be colored. There are many people who have talents but are not in an environment where they can flourish and are buried in the ground for a long time. There are many people who have talent but are not in an environment that allows it to blossom. I hope that many people will find an environment where they can express their talents. I have many talents, and you have many talents, too. I believe that one day, the earth will overflow with colorful brilliance and color the trees.

Sadakane Tomomi

baby in the sea

As I became a mother and communicated with my mother on the phone, I was saddened by the words she threw at me: "You are the child I abandoned. But I can say this because I realized that my mother was also a person and that she gave birth to me. 　 　When I was a baby, when I was in my mother's womb, I was loved by . I painted this picture to convey this message.

light

I painted as I wanted.

cody

HOPE & PEACE

I was inspired to create this work of art because of the “hope” that was newly etched into my life after the Corona pandemic. On top of the panel, there are a large number of memo blocks. On the memo blocks, many English words and sentences are written. I painted them black once with charcoal to express the fleeting fading and blurring of any memory. The birth of this work is related to the historical pandemic of the corona pandemic. The year is 2020 when the corona hits all of Japan. Those of us living in Japan were forced to live a life of self-restraint in response to the call to “stay home”. My physical condition was not good, I was mentally very depressed and could not go out, my heart was pounding so hard that I stopped breathing many times in my sleep, even though I was conscious. The thought of death crossed my mind many times. A few months later, my condition had stabilized. I did not know when the corona would end, but I imagined what the world would be like when it did. (If the corona pandemic calmed down, people would be more active in their interactions with each other in reaction to the stay-home, and I might have more opportunities to come in contact with people from all over the world.) In conclusion, I felt I would need English and started attending a certain English conversation class. This led me to take English classes at a correspondence university, read foreign books, and take English conversation lessons at least three hours a day. In these efforts, I wrote down the English words and sentences I had learned in these large blocks of notes. For me, learning English was all about having fun. English has grammar, the role of words and pronunciation, and listening is really the ability to hear sounds. Taking lessons online with teachers from overseas was the best hitotoki. Every teacher has a smile on his/her face and teaches you the world of English. I didn't speak much English at first. It was a great feeling when I could express my opinion through jokes and discussions. In the midst of the global turmoil of the coronal pandemic, learning English solemnly, which is said to be a world language, became my “hope” after the coronal pandemic. On a different note, I have bipolar affective disorder, which means that once I get into something, I am completely absorbed in it. This may be a trait that has become a bit of a “state of being”. I will continue to deal with these characteristics and grow as myself no matter what the situation is. I will continue to study the world of English. I will write and write and write. But I am sure I will often forget. The language that remains in such memory and forgetting will become my flesh and blood. In the future, I would like to make peace with people all over the world.

hero