My woodcut print and relief work are based on my own digital photographs. While woodcut is a very traditional Japanese printmaking technique that is a long process of production and all carving and printing all by a hand, I think there contains many interesting questions regarding the origin of photography.

The original meaning of photography is a primitive light picture using a camera for catching light. However I lost the vague atmosphere and personal emotions when I take the photographs by the camera. There is just the fictional two-dimensional information in the surface and there is no reality or no real existence. Therefore I cannot be satisfied with a result of the photographs as my representation. I have decided to use the woodcut technique as a way of exposing images for adapting the subjective perception to the objective fiction. I would like to grasp the light to plywood by a hand instead of exposing the film. The reason why I use monochrome photographs as a start point is for crystalisation and refinement of light. In the monochrome images, there are only black and white dots or lines and white becomes light and black becomes darkness. After spending several weeks for carving on plywood and printing on paper, the work as a final result of my representation is already far away from the original simultaneously it is not reality or fiction. It would be said the abstract reality or the real abstract because it contains both of objective and subjective perceptions and interactions between light and I. Then I hope the work makes the neutral space for others and me in the new dimension.