[After the '98 Yonago Sculpture Symposium]
​ When I received a letter requesting participation in the Yonago Sculpture Symposium, I replied, "I am happy to participate." I have visited Yonago City three times in the past to exhibit my work at the Yonago City Museum of Art, but each time my friends from the local members visited the museum, Kaike Onsen, Sakaiminato, Adachi Museum of Art, Asahimachi. It was one of the cities I would like to visit again, touching on the kindness and warmth of the city.

At the time of the local preview last fall, we had a discussion with four artists, and this time we decided to share a common theme. The work that blends into the landscape does not reject people, but interacts with people, and people can sit, lie down, hug, and experience the warmth of stones. I decided to set up a work that would be integrated with.

The Yumejiri-zu (Yume series) produced this time is a work that has been carving the buttocks with stones for 30 years. The Kamo River, where it is installed, is also located in Kyoto, and although the scenery, water quality, and flow are different, I felt it was very close to me. In such a scene, the beds and pillows that should be in the room and the round, plump and smooth buttocks are placed on the side of the road. It is a sculpture of a scene that reproduces the scenery of Kyoto's home in Yonago.

Looking back on the 45 days of production under the scorching sun, I feel like "45 days in Yonago in the midst of youth." Every day I was taught, eating, drinking, laughing, laughing, talking, exchanging opinions, talking, exchanging opinions, aiming only for perfection, just shaking fleas, polishing stones, and just like being away from the world without digging into my face.
Not only was I blessed with good writers, staff, assistants, executive committee members, and volunteers, but I was also exposed to the humanity of the local people, and such a fun symposium was a lifelong treasure for me.

I heard that the Yonago Sculpture Symposium is a new basic plan based on a long-term perspective of the public and private sectors as part of the city's city planning, and aims to aim for a sculpture road that connects the Kamogawa Green Park promenade to the sea as a cultural project. We are here. However, there may be cases where the sculptures are set up under administrative guidance. If you hold a sculpture symposium and set up only the works, you can smell the culture and that's fine. I would like to ask the executive committee members and the government to discuss well and create the most important place that is loved by the citizens and the environment that the citizens can be proud of.

I have formed a group called Kyoto Art Council with my friends, and with the slogan of human gusset art, I am working to protect and further develop Kyoto with the theme of "creating a bright city with art". That's because everyone loves Kyoto.

Now, I can see the faces of each person I met in Yonago.
I love YONAGO  Fall 1998