Memories

Not everything that matters remains clear.
Not everything that is true needs a fixed form.

The Memories series was born from a desire to preserve what is fleeting — not as literal images, but as emotional memory. These paintings do not tell stories. They remind. Like a scent returning after many years. Like a film scene that stays with us long after the screen goes dark.

In Japanese aesthetics there is the concept of mono no aware — a gentle awareness of impermanence. It is the understanding that beauty does not last, and that this transience is precisely what makes it moving. Sakura blooms briefly, yet its presence lingers. So do moments, thoughts, and images that pass — but never fully disappear.

The paintings in the Memories series exist in between.
Between light and shadow.
Between silence and motion.
Between what has been and what still lives within memory.

There is no narrative here, no answers. There is ma — space, breath, a pause that allows the viewer to enter with their own experience. What is left unpainted is as important as what appears on the surface.

Sakura in this series is not a tree.
It is a way of being.

Ikigai — a sense of purpose — is not found in grand ambitions, but in attentiveness to everyday life. In the journey. In a glance. In a moment of stillness. In the ability to recognize beauty even when we know it will soon fade.

This painting practice arises from a need for calm, not noise.
From observation, not declaration.
From gratitude for the moment, not fear of its end.

If these works resonate, it is not because they seek to be understood.
They resonate because they recall something we all carry — and often forget.

That life does not need to be permanent to be meaningful.
That impermanence does not diminish meaning — it creates it.
And that sometimes a single moment of awareness is enough to realize that we are exactly where we need to be.