IMAGE OF FIRST LOVE

                              Title:　 Image of First Love; from Poet Akiko Yosano
                    Painter Toshiaki Ruike based on the concept as “Fragile Art”

I like to make a story like bellow;
The boy who experienced bitter first love became grown-up. He started painting on the wall of the bathroom, wrote poems of love.
Here is a piece of work which he cited from a love poem written by a Japanese poet Akiko Yosano.
The original poem is also written on the wall.

         I do not speak of the way
         I do not speak of the future
         I do not inquire of my name
         Here I love I love
         We stare at each other
         You and I
                  (from MIDAREGAMI)

The boy must have seen an ideal love in the poem.

(Art technique)
This is a work of NPB, New Painting in Bathroom, drawn on the bathroom tiled wall of hotel in Iran by oil pastel and pasted newspaper and applied by Water color and Japanese white, green ink and red. After drawing it was erased soon, so there is no original drawing, that’s why this is “Fragile Art”
It was printed out in negative.