When I lived in a town of really flat Kanto plain,
squares, rectangles, or triangles.. I could see a lot of uneven lines of buildings from the window.
One day I found a strange thing appeared from a gap between the buildings.
Though it must have been so far on the aerial perspective, it had a scarily big scale.
Since then, It got bigger day by day.
Soon I found it was ' Tokyo Skytree ' .
Seeing a growing tree everyday made me be attached to it.
Unexpectedly, it isn't easy to see the grate tree even if you pass nearby
because too many things block your view.
Thus Tokyo arouses our interest more.
I think that always I searched it unconsciously.
From the window of the train of the route different from my usual,
at the moment the train approached the curve,
HIs beautiful posture appeared.
My pen was running speedy on my notebook.
That was December 2010 -
the season when the gain tower finally appeared and Skytree would be still growing.
It's been a long time since then,
I live in the town 800km away from Tokyo today.
Beyond the big earthquake,
Tokyo Skytree was completed safely.
Even though disasters cover our eyes, our heart can see far away.
‘ Growing to the sky ’
cotton, acrylic ,canvas, etc.
33.3 x 24.2 cm, 2019