和田宙土
Hiroto WADA
關於
The roots of Wada's paintings are to "entangle”. His assessment starts by studying works by predecessor and looking to find the interweave within the artworks. Entangle, is to discovering what that were not mean to be fused with each other. For example, Vincent van Gogh has artwork theme with the emotion of sorrow, and joy. A mixture of conflicting emotions, could be apprehended as a “tangle”.
The motif of his work start with the pattern of sumi ink dropped in water. Wada immediately photographs the pattern when the movement of the ink within the water shapes it into a human like shape. From the photo he uses as a guide and reconstructs it by hand painting.
What is created within the water is seen only at that moment as the next moment it dissolves, and the transparent water turns to gray. Wada feels that this moment was something that should be expressed in his painting. The color of life resembles by red, and shines when it is in between the color of black and white, which resembles the colors of death.
Wada spends a lot of time to make the moment of ink pattern that disappears in the next moment to be forever. We all exist in one moment of an endless stretch of time, each unique and radiant, only to disappear in the next moment.
The portraits of the works are each unique, but they are neither anyone nor holds a name. However, I feel that this moment is the most beautiful, when the ink patterns are almost fading but still form the shape of a human being.
The beauty that fades from birth, in other words, the ”entangle" of the present, is depicted as a portrait.