Colors of Memory – Traces Through Time
Dates: November 23 (Sun) – December 14 (Sun), 2025
Hours: 11:00 – 17:00 (open daily)
Venue: Gallery Caring, Genchan House
Koshiya Medical Care Building, 4-4-10 Ishibiki, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Organized by: Certified NPO “Living with Cancer” – Genchan House
In cooperation with: NPO Hiina Action / Oku-Noto Triennale Executive Committee / Fragments of Memory Project Committee / Kanazawa University Noto Satoyama Satoumi SDGs Meister
In 2018, I created a salt drawing of a purple magnolia at Genchan House—a work dedicated to the memory of my beloved wife, who passed away from breast cancer. This autumn marks the ninth anniversary of Genchan House—and also nine years since I said farewell to her.
A salt installation is born, then gradually returns to the sea. Like this natural cycle, human life and memory continue quietly through time.
When the Noto Peninsula earthquake struck in 2024, the installation I presented for the Oku-Noto Triennale collapsed. Yet its fragments lived on through the Fragments of Memory Project, where participants encase grains of salt in resin to create small accessories—a new form in which memory takes shape and endures.
This exhibition features a new salt installation that resonates with the passage of time and the history of Genchan House, works from my Layers series in deep autumnal blue, and a digital drawing in which lines of light slowly unfold and fade upon a screen of salt. Together, these works reflect the continual cycle of remembrance—how memories emerge, dissolve, and are quietly renewed.
Through this exhibition, I hope visitors will sense the gentle radiance and colors that remain within life’s constant change.
This exhibition is dedicated with gratitude and encouragement to cancer patients, their families, and all who support Genchan House. A portion of the proceeds from artwork sales will be donated to assist its ongoing activities and to help restore the earthquake-damaged installation in Noto.
