The distance between humans and displays is getting closer and closer. Whether you’re checking email or reading news stories, the most common characters we see in everyday life are digital letters made of light. The combination of red, green, and blue light displayed on the display allows for unlimited color reproduction and fine depiction. Digital characters are created with one button and disappear with one button. Its existence is extremely brief, and it is standardized by “Font” making it an inorganic symbol.

On the other hand, handwritten analog characters have various personalities. For example, in addition to materials such as ink and graphite, there are many elements that make up a character, such as masculinity, scribbling when angry, trembling in despair, and scribbling when in a hurry, and they have characteristics that stimulate the imagination of the recipient. Unlike digital characters, whose mission is to be easily seen by the human eye, they are organic and emotional.

But when you zoom in on a digital character, there are tiny rectangular elements called pixels that form the character, displayed in 16.77 million colors. Even black letters are represented by a combination of various colors that are easy for the human eye to perceive as black. Contrary to the inorganicity that we usually feel, it has a rich expression that seems to express human intention and emotion, or is similar to a painting that pursues beauty.

In this work, by enlarging a small digital character which is seen on a display every day and reproducing it on a canvas with paint, it was converted from an extremely unstable and fleeting existence which depends on a display device and electric power to an existence which continues to exist as a permanent entity and is appreciated. Various organic elements have been lost as a result of increased symbolization, while inorganic and beautiful elements have been acquired. This work focuses on the way characters and people continue to change despite being close to them.

“Zen” means yes, “Nasu” means to accomplish, “Ai” means love, “Kane” means bell, “Kiri” means fog, “Baku” means explosion, “Shiki” means knowledge.

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Elements , 2016-2019
10*10pixels W27.3 x H27.3cm　13*13pixels W45.5 x H45.5cm　acrylic paint, canvas