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.

Music video for "Nuts Cracker" by Gero × Meichan × Teniwoha The visuals were crafted with a retro illustration-inspired look, using the texture of the footage and 3DCG to enhance the imagery.

Broadcast within NHK’s music program “Minna no Uta,” this animation was created for Sayaka Yamamoto’s song “Boku wa Omocha” (“I’m a Toy”). Inspired by the song’s lyrics and worldview, it depicts the story of the toy protagonist “I” seeing off “you” as you set out toward the future, with both of them then beginning to move forward on their own paths.

子どもたちが窓の外にいる「音」を見つけて追いかけていく、というお話。