This painting is based on an idea I had in the past as a drawing. The basic theme was simple: “I want to draw a person writing on the floor. In the drawing, I imagined a miniature human being on top of a book, writing letters. In the painting, I imagined a person writing letters all over the flooring in his room.” Since the theme is “a person who writes letters,” the content of the text can be anything, but I cannot use someone else's text, and it must be original. Although the content is my own idea and I take it seriously, the subject of this picture is “people who write letters,” and it is not intended to be a statement of my own principles.
I created the peculiarities of the letters when transcribing the type. I wrote this while remembering the child sitting next to me in elementary school who wrote meticulously, tightly, with strong pressure, and with a slightly eerie peculiarity. I felt that the way she held her pencil tightly, kept her eyes close to her notebook, and was absorbed in her writing was close to the image of the “person who writes” that I wanted to depict.
I feel that the characters in his other works are closer to me (his self-portrait) than to anyone else. Not in terms of visuals, but in terms of consciousness. When I think of the subject as myself, for example, I feel that I do not want to expose too much skin, so I added a long piece of cloth to the shirt later on. When I think of the subject as myself, the content of the painting changes. This is something I must keep in mind if I want to be a painter in the future.