Awarded a prize at the Exhibition of Interior Design Works of Table Furnishings.

The exhibition was held from June 15 to 21, 2022.

The work exhibited at “The 65th Exhibition of Interior Design Works of Omotesou ・” was awarded the “Chairman’s Prize of Tokyo hyogu kyozi naiso bunka kyokai”.

We will take this opportunity to devote ourselves increasingly to the path of mounting.

As such, we would like to introduce the production process of this work.

(Don’t tell me you don’t want to know about it.

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I started working on this work two and a half years ago with the intention of exhibiting it in the May 2020 exhibition of interior surface decoration works.

In my search for colorful rips that I do not often use in my everyday mounting, I came across shibori kimono, and I collected various colors ・ patterns with “scraps” that I could get inexpensively and in quantity.

Since I had a considerable amount of scraps on hand, I wanted to create a work consisting of as many colors ・ pattern as possible.

Since some of the scraps were quite small, we decided to make each piece smaller and create a panel composed of three-dimensional parts wrapped around a cushion to take advantage of the texture of the shibori.

At this point, it occurred to me that it would be interesting to have a hanging scroll with a matching flat surface next to the three-dimensional panel, and I came up with a plan to exhibit the panel and the hanging scroll as a set.

I immediately created a design on my PC,

I was just starting to make a few parts for panels when the corona occurred and the exhibition of my work in 2020 was cancelled.

Nothing progressed for a few months, but in 2021, I decided it was time to resume work, and as I looked at the parts I had made the previous year, I thought, “Since I have already made so many parts, can’t I make one more panel in time? It would look better.”

I reconsidered the design on my PC.

Eventually, the dimensions per panel were increased, and the number of panels was also increased to two. The dimensions of the hanging scrolls were also increased accordingly.

After making parts of the hanging scrolls again, the decision was made to cancel the exhibition again in 2021.

After another several-month hiatus, the exhibition was canceled again in 2022.

First, the hanging scroll was completed,

Now, we are back to making parts of the panel.

We worked night and day, and managed to complete all the panels one week before the set-up day.

We immediately arranged the parts according to the blueprints.

The first panel. So-so…just as I imagined.

Let’s continue with the second panel.

Hmm? What’s…different…

The color gradation of the top and bottom is just as I imagined, but I can’t see the gradual blackness from left to right at all.

At any rate, let’s line them all up and put the hanging scrolls on the table.

More despair.

In addition to the ambiguity of the black transition from left to right, the two left panels and the hanging scroll on the right are entirely too different.

Although the exhibition was intended to be a set of three-dimensional panels and flat hanging scrolls, there was no point in having them as a set if they looked so different from each other.

After two and a half years of work, I can’t believe I’m only now realizing this.

And since despair is no excuse to start, I thought about what I could do in the remaining week.

First, the black parts of the panel.

Since we had been using various black (including brown) rips to say “black” in one word, we limited it to one type. (The one on the left in the photo was stopped and replaced with the one on the right.)

Now the black change from left to right is much more visible, but the connection with the hanging scroll is still unclear.

So, I changed the structure of only the black parts to show the process of gradual change from three-dimensional to flat. It is flat.

Changed from the one on the left to the one on the right.

Now the panel has a flat representation, which seems to have improved the problem considerably.

One more idea.

This time, I wondered if it would be possible to add a three-dimensional expression to the hanging scroll.

Of course, since it is a hanging scroll, it must be rolled up, so parts that can be attached or detached.

So, I consulted the great amazon doctor and purchased a magnet and steel plate that arrived the next day.

I was able to attach the same three-dimensional parts to the hanging scroll as to the panel.

And so we managed to make a satisfactory work just in time for the day before the set-up.

Here is a shot of the work displayed at the venue.

Another hanging scroll by Kenya Asanaga was also exhibited alongside.

(It was created during the 2nd Kakejiku and Paintings of the Future Exhibition.)

I had to think about it for two and a half years with a break in between, and as a result, I was forced to rework it until just before the meeting, but I am very happy with the result.

But the work became a work of art that I was deeply attached to.

I am truly honored to have received such a well-deserved award.

I will continue to work hard to live up to this award.