This is the season when the warm air is filled with the smell of flowers and moist humidity. The sun is stronger, the greens are bluer and bluer, and the season is moving on. Every day we see the same scenery, meet the same people in the same places, and even in such monotonous days, the sky is a different color and flowers are blooming. Our daily lives are filled with small but beautiful changes.
We are pleased to announce that we have invited illustrator Akane Nakajima to draw pieces of everyday life that surrounds us.
The gradation of the same motifs tells us that our daily life, which seems to be a repetition of the same thing, is actually full of many changes, each of which is a moment in time, and each of which is irreplaceable.
Akane says she wants to paint experiences that cannot be visualized, such as tastes and smells. She painted this work while thinking of the warm, relaxed air after a long winter. She used a brush brimming with water to create small puddles of color on the paper and then let them dry, so that traces of water would remain. The result is a work full of freshness and an airy atmosphere, as if the distinctive smell of spring is wafting through the air.
Now that we are reminded of how precious our everyday life is, I hope it will be an opportunity to look again at the small bits of beauty around us.
