The other Land

Gallery Raru at keio Department Store (Tokyo) 1995 Jun.

by Harumi Sugimatsu

Blue and Red paintings in the series "Antithetical PLANET" I have concentrated last year symbolize the Cosmos of extreme North and real Night in my mind. I am hoping this Cosmos mature and be exhibited under a new theme. This extremity, however, in which I stoically restrict in terms of color, consumes energy of the painter. Thus, I gradually become to imagine that this Cosmos should be fostered for a while.
A voice that claims emancipation of color is gushing out in my mind. This might promote my recurrence to a Life of Mid-day Sunshine from a Death of real Night. The Other Land is a Land of a life which is adjacent to a death, gleams from the inside of eyelid, and penetrates one transparent skin. The Land is connected and overlapped with the Hommage of Modern Paintings which have given us "Le bonheur de vivre". Thus, the Other Land will direct to further South.