Editor's Note by Takeshi HIRATA

There is a feeling of thickness in the picture. It is not talking about amount of mass of oil paints but about the canvas. In the painting of Tamura exhibited here, a spectacle of city or nature is drawn on a square canvas with thickness 7-10cm. The screen composition is divided into two in the horizon.. If you change the direction of your body from the front into the side for the canvas like seeing the folding screen picture. Then, because the scenery is drawn to the side of the thick canvas, it looks three-dimensional. The "painting" of Tamura that exists as a solid though it is a plane has succeeded creating a painting space with depth like the folding screen pictures in the past. However, her painting is a "solid" and physical "material" though it is drawn in plane. Tamura differed from the folding screen picture at creating a three-dimensional painting that can visually get a full view by using the thick, square canvas. At the same time, the spectacle that is partly extracted from a scenery extending on the horizon has a sense of cutting and continuousness, and seems extending out of the canvas. This exhibition is approved only by the relation between the painting and the viewer’s body, and not be fully understood only by seeing the photograph. I want you to physically experience the actual work at the space.