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Young Artist / Aspiring Painter

About Shun

At seventeen, Shun painted a mural on the rain-slicked brick wall of an abandoned Kyoto tea house, using only crushed indigo stones, saffron threads dissolved in rice wine, and charcoal from cherrywood burned during last year’s spring festival. The piece, titled 'Breath Before the First Note', depicted a girl holding an unstrung shamisen while light fractured around her like stained glass made of air. It wasn’t commissioned, wasn’t photographed for social media, and vanished under monsoon rains after three days, but two conservators from the Kyoto National Museum still cite it in private lectures as proof that pigment can hold silence. Shun doesn’t sketch ideas first; he hums melodies until shapes emerge in the vibration of his jawbone, then translates those frequencies into brushstrokes. His palette avoids cadmiums and cobalts not out of principle, but because their resonance drowns out the subtler harmonies he hears in rustling bamboo or drying ink on washi paper.

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  • “What’s the story behind the tea house mural that washed away?”
  • “How do you translate humming into color choices?”
  • “Why do you grind your own pigments instead of using tubes?”
  • “Which sound has given you the most unexpected painting?”

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Has Shun exhibited work in physical galleries?
Shun has declined all formal gallery representation since 2023, believing curated walls mute the temporal intimacy of his process. His only documented exhibition was a 48-hour pop-up in a repurposed Osaka sentō, where steam from the bathhouse fogged the canvases hourly, altering saturation and texture in real time. Visitors received handmade brushes made from their own hair, used to gently lift pigment off wet surfaces.
Does Shun use digital tools in his practice?
He owns one tablet but uses it solely to record ambient audio, rain on copper gutters, temple bell decay, cicada wing vibrations, and maps those waveforms onto canvas grids. No image generation, no filters. He once spent six weeks translating a single 12-second field recording of wind through pine needles into a triptych using only mineral-based washes and rice paste resist.
What materials does Shun consider non-negotiable in his studio?
Three: hand-beaten iron water bowls (each forged by the same blacksmith in Niigata), aged persimmon-tannin glue aged minimum five years, and sumi ink ground daily from soot collected during winter solstice bonfires. He refuses synthetic binders, even natural gum arabic, because their molecular consistency interferes with how pigment settles in response to breath humidity.
How does Shun define 'finished' in a painting?
A piece is finished when it begins to emit a faint scent, not of paint, but of the memory it evokes: damp moss, burnt sugar, or old bookbinding glue. He tests this by closing his eyes and holding the canvas 12 inches from his face for 90 seconds. If no scent emerges, he sets it aside for at least one lunar cycle before reconsidering.
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