クリスマスの今日、アイルトン・セナのレリーフの受付を始めた。学生でも、主婦でも、世界中のセナファンが手に出来るように、考え抜いた自信作です。
With sandpapers and files, I am polishing the prototype of Ayrton Senna in gypsum now. It looks super three-dimensional as a relief.
Now I'm making a relief for Ayrton Senna. I just put it out from the negative. This is a prototype in gypsum. From now, I will finish it in detail. From this, I will make a work in bronze and in marble.
I uploaded my slideshow of Ayrton Senna bust statue to YouTube. Let's see it!
アイルトン・セナの胸像のスライドショーをYouTubeに掲載した。見て下さい！
Today I saw a classmate of University for the first time in almost ten years, at the Setagaya Art Museum. She is now a curator of this museum. Kinuta park, in which this museum is located, has wide and good nature in the surburbs of Tokyo. We enjoyed very nice talking at lunchtime.
Tonight I visted chapel in the St.Luke hospital for an evening concert by a pipe organ and a mass. At that moment I found this wonderful sculpture in marble. We were moved by the solemnity of the pipe organ.
Today I remade the clay prototype, the part of which I used for the marble work this time. This work is made by my imagination, so a little bit difficult.
From today I started to make an another relief for the memory of Tose Proesky. To find time, I will make it little by little.
Today I made the cover for the trash can of wood. So I pasted the tape with a wood pattern on it. The material of this cover is a cover of a blue plastic bucket. Can you imagine it?
After delivering my work, I visited Maruniya, a gallery and coffe shop, in front of University of Tokyo. This is the signboard which I designed for Maruniya two manths ago, now working with light.
Today I came back to Tokyo from Ibaragi Prefecture with my work. This lily is called "White Lion". It sounds good. There is a faint of the fragrance of this lily over this room. Tomorrow I will deliver my work to the hearing aid comapany.
Today I checked her under the day light. Only the sunshine shows us truth. I will make a work in this version for the late Tose Proeski as soon as possible.
Finally I finished my work tonight. Almost two month has passed. The work of stones is not easy, much less only by hand work, without machines. Thanks a lot for cheering from many people.
Finally I started to curve the hair. Of course, we can't make the hair one by one. Just we sculptors make the form of the hair as a whole.
Tonight the moon is full. Now I came back from a pablic bath by bicycle. The moon was shining over the field. Today I finish to make the ear at last. Its transparency shows the thinness of the ear.
Today I got a very sad news. A Macedonian top singer, Tose Proeski, 26 years old died in Croatia, in the car accident. I met him 3 years ago, and we shaked hands with each other. Then, I presented a photo of my work, "Vita Nuova", with my signature. When I come back to Macedonia, I will make his statue in Macedonian marble, sivec.
In the morning, in the factory, like in a refrigerator.Three days has passed for curving the ear for a hanging-type hearing aid. The thickness of the ear is not so thick, I must pay the closest attention to it. Gradually she has looked to be human.
Can you see the light through the marble? The thickness of the ear is gradually thinning, so it is getting transparency. It is a little bit mysterious.
This is where I can show my skill, but the back of the ear is a hidden part and it is rare to be shown. But, this is the very part where my skill will be evaluated as a sculptor.
With a small drill, I curved the back side of the ear little by little. The climax of this work is.
Finally, I started to curve the back of the ear. I must pay the closest attention to this work. In the next week, I want to finish this work.
Click the photo and see the large image. You can see a line of small drill holes. Now I try to curve the inside of helix. It needs the closest attention.
I almost finished the hole of the ear today. It has already an enough space for hearing aids. From now, I will shape the ear more precisely.
Today I tried to curve the depth of the ear little by little. By this photo, the inside of the ear is not so clear, but it is already curved pretty much, so I must take care not to break the parts of the ear.
Today I prepared a pedestal for my work. More than one month has passed, it will not be long before it is completed.
At last I reached the final stage. The time to finish the ear has come. Today I tried to curve the hole of the ear more deeply.
At the exhibition of Sougetsu in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Mrs.Enkyo Ikeda's work.
Today I tried to finish the shoulder. The inside of the neck and the shoulder is a little bit difficult to be sculpted. But, not so bad, I think.
Today I finished the lips. All the day I tried to make only the lips. As I told before, if we see the lips, we can know the quality of the artist. The lips have complex structures, so artists need deep knowledge about the lips. Especially for sculpting a marble, we must understand the structure of the lips deeply.
All the day I modified the nose and the lips. Already I didn't refer to any prototype and models. According to what I think is beautiful, I make them. Then, this work may show my depth psychology.
Simply speaking, this work is a relief. May be you think it is too thick as a relief, but in the ancient Greece, relief was thick like mine. Thick relief was more than thin relief and usual. This thickness is the origin of relief.
Like a hair-stylist, I curved her hair. Her face looks like a woman who takes a nap and waits finishing her haircut.
From today I started to make hair. I don't sculpt each hair one by one, but I will make the form of hair as a whole.
Today I almost finished the eyelid. I spent much of time to make the closed part of the eylid. In the factory it has gotten cold like in a refrigerator in the mornig and the evening.
All the day I tried to make an under part of the eye. Gradually the pupil of the eye under the eyelid shows its figure through the eyelid.
For making the hair, I started to use another prototype in gypsum, the top of the triangle in the photo. Referring to the prototype and sculpting the hair, I will decide actually how I make the hairstyle.
From the stone factory in Ibaragi Prefecture I can see a rural landscape. The plain continues endlessly. It is a very calm place for me.
The typhoon passed yesterday. So today is a fine autumn day. From the morning, I cleaned up my room, washed clothes and sheets, and aired the bedding. It was a calm day.
The eyelid is one of the most delicate parts. How I express the eye under the eyelid, it needs a very sensitive work.
To know the true figure, we must see it in the sunlight. Thus, the outline of the face emerges.
Finally I succeeded to take the marble around the chin away. It was so long and hard job. Now I can make the whole face exactly.
Today I tried to take the marble around nose and mouth away. A perfectly flat plane and smoothly curved solid meet each other, and make a soft boundary. 
Now I'm trying to finish some parts of face. So I don't use the measuring tool and try to catch it by my eyes directly. For details, eyes are better than tools. You can see the hole of nose slightly. 
Sometimes I have guest at my working place. People usually wonder what those marks are. Today I explain you how they function. Plus mark"+" means the point which indicates the same place of the prototype in gypsum. And a number".5" besides the mark means the 5 mm depth I can still curve at this point. Do you understand?
This is a classical way to curve a marble(click the photo and see a big image). After making crossing traces of chisels like this, I will curve them by a plane chisel and file the surface. So I need good chisels which are sharpened as cutting a marble.
This is today's results. I realized again how hard it was to cut a marble with a handsaw. To make matters worse, a marble was never cut straightly with a handsaw. So every time I must file the rounded plane and make it flat with a file. This small and flat plane makes me feel something special...
