Editor's Note by Satoshi Koganezawa

It is the fifth “ASK? Image Festival” and the first exhibition shows the grand prize winner of “ASK? Image Festival Competition” in 2008. This is Masanori OKAMOTO’s animation, including “Pank-naoshi” (puncture repairer) (2008) and “Ba-a-chan” (grand-mom) (2007) and the original cutouts and materials. “Pank-naoshi” is an image with a scene in which someone is seen repairing a bicycle puncture, and it was made into an animated cartoon as its name suggests. At first, I was not sure why he had devised such a scene. However, there is a thorough elaborateness in the work, resulting from the detailed observation of the "Puncture repair" work, and it has the power to drag those who see it into the screen with a jerk.