A wish for peace gentle footsteps.

Cloths of heaven NO.1
2019
by M.Kaneyasu

 During the global pandemic, when the world grew quiet and movement became restricted, I found myself returning to a simple gesture: drawing circles in ink. What began as a repetitive act slowly became a way to breathe, to create space, and to hold fragile hope within uncertain days.

I create space by drawing circles in ink.
As I enclose various thoughts within each circle, the act of drawing feels deeply comforting.

These four paintings were created during the global pandemic, when our movements were restricted and a sense of confinement filled the days.

From my small room near the Tama River, which flows south of Tokyo, this was the sky I saw.

Around the time I completed these four works, I encountered the poem “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W.B. Yeats.　「Tread softly because you tread on my dreams」

Cloths of Heaven  No2
2019
by M.Kaneyasu

Perhaps I wanted to entrust some quiet hope to the clouds hanging in the sky—and to the poets who have looked up at it before me.

The sky is always infinite. It gently envelops humanity scattered across the world as one.

I hope there will be no war.
As Yeats wrote in his poem, I wish that we might tread softly—gently—upon this world.