"I was born in Showa 34, and when I was born, there was a black and white TV and I used to watch it a lot. Since kindergarten, I have been obsessed with drawing pictures of things I saw on TV, and that was the beginning of my involvement with painting. I just liked to draw, and I continued to draw for a long time. When I was in high school, I had many options when choosing a career, but when I thought about my favorite field and what I was good at, I thought that painting was still the way to go. So I set my goal of going to art university, and eventually went on to Aichi Prefectural University of Arts to study oil painting." 　―Did you work as a painter immediately after graduating from university?　 "After graduating from university, I have been working as a painter while working as an art teacher. Even when I looked at the people around the university, it was difficult for me to suddenly make a living as a painter selling only paintings. Many of my friends who studied oil painting with me continue to be painters while working as teachers. When I graduated from university, contemporary art was flourishing, so I was working on installations. Although he temporarily took a break from his activities due to marriage and child-rearing, he resumed his work as his children grew up. After that, I came up with a new idea called 'Hitomi' to photograph my own eyes, draw them, and turn them into a work. Based on that work, I was able to hold multiple exhibitions at contemporary art galleries. I received the Kyoto Exhibition Award at an exhibition sponsored by the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and the Excellence Award at the Byodoin Omotesando Art Exhibition, and I felt a great sense of accomplishment." 　―What kind of work do you do in apparel?　 "After graduating from university, I have been working as a painter while working as an art teacher. Even when I looked at the people around the university, it was difficult for me to suddenly make a living as a painter selling only paintings. Many of my friends who studied oil painting with me continue to be painters while working as teachers. When I graduated from university, contemporary art was flourishing, so I was working on installations. Although he temporarily took a break from his activities due to marriage and child-rearing, he resumed his work as his children grew up. After that, I came up with a new idea called 'Hitomi' to photograph my own eyes, draw them, and turn them into a work. Based on that work, I was able to hold multiple exhibitions at contemporary art galleries. I received the Kyoto Exhibition Award at an exhibition sponsored by the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and the Excellence Award at the Byodoin Omotesando Art Exhibition, and I felt a great sense of accomplishment."

　 "I've always liked cameras and used them myself, so I thought I could draw works that made use of them. When digital cameras started to come out, they were expensive and had low pixels, but more and more affordable cameras with high pixel counts came out, and it was possible to take pictures of the inside of the eye from a distance of about 1 cm. Also, the eyes are something that will not change for a lifetime, just like fingerprints, and are one of the factors that help us identify us as human beings. Therefore, I thought it would be interesting to draw the eyes as a self-portrait. However, when I take a picture of the eyes, I inevitably capture the scenery I am seeing, so I thought it would be interesting to draw that scenery as well. It was very interesting to see the scenery in my eyes and my iris pattern overlapping at the same time. Also, when looking at the scenery, things that you feel with your five senses, such as noise, smell, or temperature, accumulate in your head, but you can only output them yourself. In other words, after one's own death, all such things will disappear from this world. I thought it would be a good idea to depict such impermanence or Japan-like transience. The desire to paint contemporary works and the development of cameras to realize them overlapped, and Hitomikei started." 　-It's a novel idea, but what was the reaction of those around you at the time?　 "I draw the best shots of hundreds of my eyes taken in analog, but there are many things that don't come through. I received an award, but I feel that it was not recognized by those around me. At that time, social media was not as developed as it is now, and the way to appeal may have been poor."