Artist’s note
This is a painting of awakening.
We have one life. We know that the only moment to live is now. And yet, bound by past experience and memory, by other people’s words and society’s values, we go on — without noticing — living a self carried over from the past.
Awakening Force is a work for setting ourselves free from that, and calling up the power that has lain asleep.
In a deep black like lacquer, fierce movements of white and gold collide and rise as one great energy. This black is not a darkness to fear. It is also a blank that holds your boundless possibility.
The chances that come in life do not always appear in the shape we imagined. Sometimes they stand before us in a form that brings unease or fear. But there is no need to be afraid. You, now, are 100% free. No one can stop your life.
The past cannot be changed. But from this very moment, you can decide where to go. You are wonderful just as you are. What you need is not to be perfect, nor for everything to be ready. It is the courage to believe in yourself and step forward.
Good fortune does not come simply by waiting. When you believe in yourself and take a step, possibilities you could not see before reveal themselves as good fortune.
I hope this work will awaken the power sleeping in those who see it, and give them the courage to live not in the past but “now”.
Awakening Force — Let us awaken. Within you is a power you do not yet know.
— Artist’s description, 2026
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- Art in Interior Project in MASTERWAL GINZA, Tokyo, 2026
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