From aryy’s first album. A video with imagery that feels like peering into personal memories. A sense of nostalgic summer that everyone has.

Conceptually, it is an antithesis to the sense of confinement and fixed ideas that living things and phenomena must be reduced to symbols. Reality in our lives often contains many incomprehensible, inexplicable things, and everyone experiences this. I aimed to depict the lived-in feel of a collage world without a protagonist, with scenes that may or may not connect to one another, and a surrealistic expression in which people and objects exist in a fragmented world while breaking free of symbols and transforming. For painting, I mainly referred to Hieronymus Bosch and Bruegel; for film, Leos Carax, Sergei Parajanov, and Luis Buñuel. Originally, this piece of music itself was composed by NISHINA specifically for a GMO CLICK Securities commercial, and since it was inspired by the rough collage I was creating for that commercial, I think it became a work with a very strong affinity.

Film direction for Numéro TOKYO THE ART OF MOTOKI OHMORI Numéro TOKYO reimagines Motoki Ohmori of Mrs. GREEN APPLE as the “protagonist of a contemporary fable,” and brings that world to life.