I usually use oil ink, because of it takes long time to get dride, so that it gives me more time to think about the painting itself and also the world which I really want to express from that painting.
It takes me more than a year, but durling that time, the painting is always next to me.
I just wait the painting start to telling me what really I want to express.
Sometimes the painting changes my inspiration but it dosen't matter.
However, it doesn't change a fundamental part of the work. It's like purified in my consideration, and I can approaches to the essence of the work.

I don't mind the size of painting, but first thing it comes up on my mind is "WORD" and "MUSIC".
Sometimes it pops up in my mind the name of the city where I've never heard.
And that name goes around my mind and I can feel the temperature or the wind as if I was there.
So that it gives me the feeling of unknown world.
Even though that world is an imagination, there lives in my mind as real.

I usually take a note of such a wander-land names and try to keep that world clearly.
In the course, thinks about the directionality of the work and the size of the canvas, and sometimes the title might be previously decided.
The groundwork is made on the canvas only after it is possible to do here.
As work, the screen is dyed to one color with paints, listens to music near the image, and looks at sitting for a long time in front of the canvas.

Another important thing is to make the color.
It might be a part stuck to.
When the color that I think of cannot be made easily, it considerably gets irritated and the picture might not be drawn any longer on the day.
However, even I can be likely to do the very good color not noticed occasionally when it does so and the color is made, and the color is colored to the new white canvas.
Then, the new world might seem to become later from the canvas.
It is a very mysterious, exciting moment, feeling like a traveled to the city where I've never been to, and asked the road to someone who dosen't know.

For me, to make the art is to express me obediently face to face.
I used to think the meaning of the painting is for someone to understand something, and I've had tried to make an art for someone to like it.

However, it was not a work of the world of me.

Opposite to me is I must watch many things which I want to forget or too painful memories even it is in the bottom of my hearts.

But someday, even it laughs everything off, and I want to see my artwork in feeling like "I miss the days in beautiful memories".
Now I'm just wishing someone to have a happy feeling with my art.

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