Editor's Note by Takeshi HIRATA

Every day is encounters with the nonchalant one. The work of Ryohei Usui is filled with the surprise and the mystery of such "encounters". It is meaningless to call “discover”, and is not more dramatic than "Meet" either, though it is the road which the one has passed so many times, and the window which the one has seen so many times. “Encounter” is valid by having an awareness to have met it. The painting work 'Encounter' announced after an interval of six years marks the moment and the air of "encounter" while indicating the mysterious world, apart from whether or not we notice it as an "encounter".