深夜0時から未明にかけての夜明け前に、眠れずにいる人々の居る場所を見つめます。日中を人は集団の一人として生きます。しかし日が沈んでも、人は必ずしも個に還元されるとは限りません。誰かの為に働き、努力し、或いは焼き付いた昼の記憶に苛まれて、社会的要請によって瞼は開かれています。その視座と微かな声を鮮烈な色彩による絵画表現および明滅する音と動きによる映像表現で解釈します。鑑賞者がそれらの内に自らを溶かすことで、溶け切らないその人自身の心の動きと出会うことを願います。

The Before Dawn series depicts public spaces where there is someone who are not able to sleep before dawn, between midnight and dawn. This series depicts a global fast food chain restaurant, back alleys, and an airport late at night. Through this work, I attempt to express the alienation and loneliness as well as anger and sadness, that lurk around us in society.
During the global pandemic, the number of 24 hour stores, that is, those open late at night, decreased. The series was drawn from the question of whether people without homes or places to stay at home would then have no place to go.
There are several important formative elements. First, as a motif, no actual people are depicted on the screen. People are abstracted and "something like a soft presence" is depicted in the pictorial space. Also important is the choice of a global chain store as the motif. It gives a sense of commonality rather than a specific locality. Although I have covered various parts of Japan, it is suggested that this is happening everywhere in the world. Furthermore, the melancholy colors are also important. I give priority to making the paintings more concerned with the abstracted, solitary presence that lurks within them. In addition, in this series is a video installation consisting of flickering colors and space.
I created this series in the hope that they would encourage viewers to think about the solitary and overlooked beings that may be right beside them.