Painting a Fleeting Moment
4/1/2026 12:09:41 AM
Each spring, the cherry blossoms return in full glory - soft, luminous, and impossibly brief.In an old district in Kyoto I call home, canals once carried boats through a sake-brewing neighborhood. In spring, those same canals become something almost dreamlike, as blossoms gather above the water and drift slowly with the current. When I began this painting, I didn’t want to describe the blossoms in a literal way. Cherry blossoms are not something you can fully capture with precision - they are constantly changing, falling, dissolving into light and air. So I painted them without a fixed plan. Instead of defining each petal, [...]
