I was born in 1969, and when I was born, there were black-and-white TVs and I often watched them. Since kindergarten, I have been obsessed with drawing pictures I saw on TV, and that became my first connection with art. I just loved drawing and kept drawing for a long time.

When I was in high school, I had many options when choosing my career path, but when I thought about my favorite and strong fields, I realized that drawing was the best choice. So, I set my sights on entering an art university, and eventually enrolled at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts to study oil painting.

After graduating from university, I have been working as an art teacher while also working as a painter. Looking at people around me at university, it was difficult to make a living selling only paintings as a painter right away. Many of my friends who studied oil painting with me are also working as teachers while continuing their careers as painters. When I graduated from university, contemporary art was thriving, so I worked on installations and similar works. Although I temporarily paused my activities due to marriage and child-rearing, my child grew up and resumed creating works.

After that, I came up with a new idea called 'Eye View,' where I photographed my own eyes, drew them, and turned them into works. Based on those works, we were able to hold multiple exhibitions at contemporary art galleries. I felt a great sense of accomplishment, having received the Kyoto Exhibition Award at an exhibition hosted by Kyoto City Museum and the Excellence Award at the Byodoin Omotesando Art Contest.

I've always liked cameras and used to handle them myself, so I wondered if I could create works that make the most of that. When digital cameras first appeared, they were expensive and had low resolution, but more and more affordable cameras with higher resolution became available, and the ability to capture the inside of the eye from about 1cm away had a major impact. Also, like fingerprints, the eyes are something that never changes, and they are one of the elements that distinguish me as a person. So, I thought it would be interesting to draw the eyes as a self-portrait. However, when you photograph your eyes, the scenery you are looking at inevitably gets captured, so I thought it might be interesting to try drawing those scenes as well. The scenery I saw overlapping with the patterns on my irises and appearing simultaneously was really interesting.

Also, when looking at a landscape, sensory sensations like noise, smells, or temperature accumulate in the mind, but these can only be output by oneself. In other words, after one's own death, such things will completely disappear from this world. I thought it might be good to depict such impermanence and the transience of Japanese style. The desire to create contemporary works coincided with the development of cameras to realize it, and the focus of 'Eye View' began.

I would take hundreds of analog shots of my own eyes and create works based on the best shots I carefully selected. However, the background and dedication behind the production were often not fully conveyed, and there were moments that left me feeling frustrated. Although I received a certain level of recognition, such as winning awards, I feel that I was not as recognized by those around me as I had imagined.

At that time, social media was not as developed as it is now, and it was not an environment where we could widely share our works and the production process. Perhaps I myself wasn't good at effectively showcasing the appeal and intent of my work.