Artworks

こうまでしても救いようのない人間にやりきれない疲労静かな絶望的な優しさ　1981年

「やりきれない疲労」の風景を、脱力しきった筆蝕と大きく間をあけた構成で書かんと試みた。「静かな絶望的な優しさ」の箇所は書いて黒く塗りつぶした。書き切った完結感は句の世界にそぐわない、未完の風景を欲したのだ。

The fatigue and the quietly hopeless kindness of the inability to do anything further for people who are helpless, despite the best efforts to help, 1981

I attempted to depict a landscape of “fatigue” using thoroughly weakened brushstrokes and a structure of wide, spaced strokes. I wrote the part about “quietly hopeless kindness” and then painted it out with sumi ink. A sense of completion is inappropriate for this haiku/phrase; instead, I wanted an unfinished landscape.