PERSONAL STRUCTURES

Kaoru Shibuta is a painter, but is also interested in sound, and he creates improvised drawings based on the way sound appears as color and shape. When the information from the five senses, such as the sense of sight, which is said to contain a great deal of information, and the sense of hearing, such as sound, is integrated and recognized within us, feedback can come back through other senses, and each sense is not closed off by itself. In this synesthetic state, Shibuta feels “color” and “shape.” Every day, we receive and grasp the influences of the environment surrounding us (the outside world and others) through our five senses and perception, but it cannot be said that only what we clearly sense and what remains exists, something that unconsciously enters into our understanding, something that we cannot pick up, something that seems to disappear without having a form. He draws inspiration from these things and expresses them through “shape,” “color,” and “material” as if in sympathy. Although the initial clues will be different, by composing the artist’s expression in space and circulating it, we hope to create an environment in which new sympathy and resonance can occur.