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Excellence Prize
a continuous day
Frame Manga
Artist : SEKINE Yuki
(Japan)
SEKINE Yuki
Born in Saitama, in 1977. She graduated from TsudaCollege, Department of International and Cultural Studies, and became involved in website illustration creation while she was working for a company. Currently, she is working as a freelance illustrator for children's books. This award-winning work is her first picture book.
A continuous day is the first picture book I have written and drawn; it is all original work. When I received news of the award, I felt great encouragement to continue in this direction. I am very grateful to the people and for the events I have witnessed, as they have given me the strength to draw this story. I hope that it will induce many and varied thoughts in the minds of readers. Thank you very much.
The wide blank spaces in this work give the reader a feeling of air. The color and scent, or rather the thoughts, brought to the mind of the individual, are never be disturbed by the well placed blank spaces. The theme of this work is the sadness and absurdity brought by "losing someone or something important". The artist symbolized this universal absurdity that we cannot avoid with "higanbana" (cluster amaryllis). Although "higanbana" is a flower specifically associated with death in Japan, I want the artist to move on one step forward, beyond the sorrow of death. I want to see, in the blank spaces that lie ahead, a strong but tender scene of joy beyond the resignation of accepting the fate.
How old were you when you "created" something first time in your life? At that time, what did you create, and what kind of medium did you use?
I don't remember...
What kind of tools or medium do you use now? Please tell us the reason why you choose them.
Aquarelle, pencils and paper. There is no special reason. I think they are the things I am most comfortable with.
If you could get "dream tools/medium" for your creation, what do you wish to get?
I wish I could have spirit, technique and physical conditions where ideas well out like water and I could form them directly into shape, rather than using tools. But I think that sort of thing doesn't exist and, that's why I am here.
Do you have any consistent subject matter or theme through your works? If so, please explain us.
Something close. Something I'll miss because it is too close. I would like to watch these things.
Please tell us the most difficult or considerable part when you create your work.
Not to draw. Convey something without drawing. White space.
Have you ever felt that your work is a "media art"? Also, what is the difference between "media arts" and "traditional fine arts"?
Not particularly. I feel that media arts have an atmosphere which draws more general interests or which stands in a relationship with the others. I'm sorry I don't know this issue very well.
As an artist/creator, please tell us your approach, stance or point of view when you create your work.
I would like to live everyday in the proper way. Get up in the morning and eat breakfast and work and play and sleep. I want to live while feeling something about something. As a human being, rather than as an artist.
What is your motto?
"Wait without expectation, but never give up." This is one of the arts of managing in society in my own way.
What kind of situation in every day life do you get inspired most?
Taking a walk, having a meal, between the states of sleep and wakefulness.
What kind of vision do you have in your future development as the creator?
I can never tell. Days change and I myself change with them. However, I wish a picture to be what I can live if it is the one thing I have with me even though I lose something else.
Please name of the people, things, or phenomena that you have got most influenced by as the creator.
Various things around me :
For good or bad, something which has had influence on me and will have influence on me in the future..
Manga by TAKANO Fumiko :
I know it goes without my saying, but I am overwhelmed by her great sensitivity of observation..
L'ODEUR DE LA PAPAYE VERTE:
A Vietnamese film. A matter-of-fact structure and beautiful images.
For good or bad, something which has had influence on me and will have influence on me in the future..
Manga by TAKANO Fumiko :
I know it goes without my saying, but I am overwhelmed by her great sensitivity of observation..
L'ODEUR DE LA PAPAYE VERTE:
A Vietnamese film. A matter-of-fact structure and beautiful images.
