- Concept - Life is something like a dream. If we wish for it, the future of this world can change shape like smoke, and we can create it. What if this real world (life) were a dream we are having..? If there were no self, perhaps this world would not exist, and this real world might be an illusion created by the self. With the theme of "I want to stay a child forever, and I want to keep making every wish I have come true" woven into the work, this piece’s theme is to create the world to come exactly as we want, like a lucid dream (a dream in which you know you are dreaming while dreaming).

Filmed in Paris, this piece was inspired by Sagane’s “Good Day, Sadness,” a work by a Parisian writer. The pain and helplessness of confronting sorrow and regret are universal struggles of being human. From this song, I felt a positive message: that fleeing from such struggles and confronting them head-on, however clumsily, are both deeply human, and that this raw honesty is what makes us beautiful. Together with the dancers, I translated that feeling into the performance. The protagonist struggles alone with loneliness, sublimating those feelings only to fall back into doubt, repeating the loop of suffering again and again until exhaustion finally brings them to the ground. Unable to speak of it to anyone, they suffer in a world of their own, yet by pulling back and seeing the city lights, they sense the existence of many others. Surely the people within those lights are wrestling with the same feelings; this is not your burden alone, but a struggle shared by everyone. With that concept in mind, we found the perfect location. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ 　If you were lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, 　it stays with you, for wherever you may go for the rest of your life, 　Paris is a moveable feast. 　――Ernest Hemingway ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ These are Hemingway’s words, and it is said that Paris contained everything in the world. The “hope” in the light of Paris reflected across the river, and the protagonist sitting alone may seem contradictory at first glance, but I hope you will feel something in the beauty of that figure, illuminated by the city lights.

A music and animation piece for sauna lovers. This is a new version of a previous work, with the sauna room depiction changed to my ideal sauna room. The video is built around a loop animation at 8 fps.

Description: I remade the short version of the video I created for April Fool's Day into a full-length version.