Taiyo Okamoto

Start A New Life From Now

Start A New Life From Now

I have experienced a few moments when I thought, 'Oh a new life has begun now.' That is a sensation which you wake up that moment and your life begins from right there, unlike when something happy happens and you feel like 'I can move forward from now.' It feels like the past does not exist. But you have something like memories which make you wonder if you might have lived that past. When I had a car accident when I was little, and when I crushed my face on my friend's concre

Turning Back was Natural

Turning Back was Natural

I was drawing all the time in my early childhood. When I entered elementary school, I received many awards. Becoming a painter or artist was a natural path for me to take. However, in my adolescence, I was conscious about my parents and society too much, and then I stopped making art. And in 2002, I came to New York as if I had to escape the suffocating environment. And then I began regaining my true self little by little. I started to understand why I came to New York now. I

Thanks to My Parents

Thanks to My Parents

These days I'm often grateful to my parents. I grew up in a small seaside town called Ohka in Karatsu, Saga in Japan. The ocean was in front of my house too, so I was seeing the ocean and the vast sky above everyday. What a wonderful place my house was located, when I look back at those times now. When I was little, my mother managed to ride me and my older sister on a bicycle to take us to the kindergarten in town. We planted a lot of different kinds of vegetables in the yar

Trusting Myself 100%

Trusting Myself 100%

I still had not announced here yet, but I was planning to have my first exhibition in Japan in April. However, I will no longer participate in that exhibition. That was unfortunate, but I was not really shocked by the news. Even so, because I had a great show in Taipei, Taiwan last October, FENKO Catalysis Chamber sponsored a 40-meter roll of paper to me for the Japan show. Since I'm no longer participating in that show, I was wondering a bit what to do with the paper, but th

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