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Introduction
Our family’s common interest is art.
My son has been good at drawing realistically with a pencil since he was a child. My daughter has a rich sense of color and draws imaginary landscapes. They also had an interest in music, having learned to play the piano when they were in elementary school.
Meanwhile, my wife, who is good with her hands and is a good knitter, actually knitted sweaters, scarves, hats, and stuffed animals for me and the kids.
I have paint aquatic organisms to soothe my son, daughter, and wife with developmentally and mentally disabilities.
My motif is painful, contradictory, and narrative spacetimes where the “world of children with developmental and mental disabilities“ and the “world of healthy adults” intersect discontinuously. I wish I could connect these two divided worlds through art.
I have been involved in industrial design and advertising design for over 20 years. Since this year, I have begun full-scale painting production.
In this chapter, I will introduce the paintings I created to heal the developmentally and mentally disabled.
私たち家族の共通の興味が芸術です。息子は幼少期から鉛筆による写実描写が得意です。娘は色彩感覚が豊で空想した風景を描いています。また、彼らは小学生のころにピアノを習っていて音楽にも興味を持っていた。一方、妻は手先が器用で編み物が得意で、私や子供たちのためにセーター、マフラー、帽子、ぬいぐるみを編んでくれました。
私は２０年以上にわたって工業デザインや広告デザインを手掛けてきました。2024年から絵画制作を本格化させています。
このチャプターでは、発達障害と精神障害で苦しんでいる家族を癒すために描いた絵画をテーマ別に整理して紹介します。
