Drawings for Musical Scores
This display of drawings: a White and Black series and a Color series together serve as scores for people to make music with. For the performance, the scores are just hints, the players are not ruled by them and can create a new dialogue with each other.
The White and Black series reflects traditional water and ink painting. The ink wash painting has a concept: “black has five colors.” The inclusiveness of all colors is designed to stimulate the imagination, turning one color into many, and color into sound. The brushstrokes express water and noise, creating the smoky expression of deep foggy space and mist in ancient Japanese paintings.
The Color series is based on my sound experience. After I received my cochlear implant, I had a complete change in my audio, visual, and temporal perceptions. Synesthesia altered my sense of time and space, and I experienced sound in colors. Pink came to represent my hearing, the red colors becoming prominent in my Japanese painting during my master’s program in Tokyo. In this exhibition, I use not only pink, but also yellow, white and other colors to represent my synesthesia.
