#４Pointe shoe painter Ree【Interview】

I’m going to Belgium in this April.

Yeah.  There is a festival introduced by acquaintance.  It is a festival of street performance.

 

I am thinking that I want to go abroad once a year.

I often said that “you had better do something popular overseas”

 

For example, wearing kimono, using Japanese-style music and Japanese musical instrument like traditional performing art.

Japanese traditional art was suggested, but I have a work that I want to make the most.  It is not having any sense, but I would like to draw a pattern.

 

Moreover, only with Japanese ink.

That’s right.

I overlapped a lot of lines in TED.  Oh my image is like this! (She looked at the floor in the lounge)

 

I would like to make the work like this.  Overlapping and combining line.

When I can do it, my fire is burning again.  It is a medium heat now.

 

That’s why I am doing what I really want to do.  I think Pointe shoe painting is the best for me.

 

I’m often said “Please draw a picture that is easier to understand.”  If the offer is coming, of course I will do.

There might be difficulty more than light.  I have 90% difficulty and 10% light.

I really felt that words aren’t needed today.  I usually speak a little more.  Today, everyone was concentrating a lot

The interesting thing was that the man starts crying.  It was a situation that can not happen in Japan.

 

After finishing, some men came beside me and said.  “I was cried by your performance. Why?”  I didn’t know why.  hahaha.

 

Anyway, they did not ask any question.  I thought it was not because I can not speak English.

 

They talked to me very fast.  “Congratulations!! and I was cried!!”  haha.

 

They were just telling me what they felt.  I was just telling them “Thank you! thank you!”  Their smile and eyes shining are really my treasure.

 

I was not asked a question why you draw with toe shoes.  The question always asked in Japan is “Why toe shoes?”

 

“Is this a dance?”  “Is this a picture?”  I was asked this two questions absolutely.

Also in New York, I thought that I would be asked that question. So I was preparing it but nothing.

 

I talked it to a curator.  “I was very surprised that there wasn’t a question always asked.  I was so glad.”

 

And I was told that New York people don’t doubt the style of artist.  They are understanding “That is your style.”

 

Because they watch from that viewpoint, they don’t think why you wear such a dress or such a costume.  The most important thing is how they felt.

Even in a genre that is not interested at all, if the person are doing with passion and first-class, we are moved and love it.

I have to go more.

 

In the next 5 years, I am going abroad actively.  Because I have not been invited yet.

Actually I had better go to New York every half year.

Right.  Because everyone remember me.  But I can’t afford it.

Yes.  But I think that it is not necessary to focus on only New York.  I am interested in every country.

 

I would like to go to various countries as much as possible.

In previous life, I was dancing in the desert.

Sure.  I have been told.

I was a man dancer in previous life.  He was a Middle Eastern dancer who is dancing towards the sun.

 

He had no friends.  He was dancing towards the sun alone.

I want to make friends!!