352cm x 360cm / One-yen coins/ 2015

One-yen coin presented as "a substance," apart from the numismatic value. What can be seen are the diverse aspects of the object: it’s attractiveness as a one-yen coin as "a substance," or the numismatic value which often gets more attention. The image of a viewer will be reflected and projected on it.

138cm x 290cm / Japanese paper, Pencil, Frottage on Japanese one-yen coins / 2015

A ten-thousand-yen bill is drawn by the process of frottage with ten thousand and five one-yen coins. Ten thousand and five one-yen coins are symbolically embedded in the paper. A bill itself as "a substance" is not worth its face value.  Confronted with the format of the huge bill, we think about what a currency is and what a value is, by picturing its image with coins which indeed have more value as "a substance" than a bill.

60,6cm x 72,7cm / Japanese paper, Alminum leaf, Frottage on Japanese one-yen coins / 2014

This work is based on Western historical art works such as Venus of Urbino by Titian and Michelangelo's David as well as the series of frottage drawings of famed Western paintings including the Mona Lisa, all created with one-yen coins.  725 yen as these titles indicates is the actual number of coins used in the work. It ironically comments on judging art works by monetary value and the gap between historical famed works and a small amount of money used to create them. In these works, intentional trimming of the composition emphasizes the erotic being present inside the works of art.

60.0 x 60.0 cm each / Japanese paper, Alminum leaf, Frottage on Japanese one-yen coins
My motifs are the women in famous Western paintings and the women working in the nightlife district.
Sacred and secular, past and present, real and fictional," and various boundaries and values are blurred, as if covered by a mosaic, and the works are created as if they were flat.
The motif of this work is Mary Magdalene, who appears in the Bible and is said to have had a prostitute-like past.

10cm x 10cm / Print, Alminum paper /2014

This was created with an aim of seeing the pure beauty of the surface of a coin by losing its value as a three dimensional "substance." The one-yen coins printed on aluminum paper seem as if they are liberated and confined at the same time.

225cm x 345cm / Blue sheet, Acrylic, Gold leaf / 2013

Mt. Fuji painted on a blue sheet with acrylic. Utilizing the color of the blue sheet, the image expresses the intangibility of Mt. Fuji mixing both elegance and cheapness.