ABOUT

Tomotsugu
Nakamura

My practice begins with the understanding that human beings are part of nature. I work with plants, wood, soil, stone and lime—materials shaped by time, weather, decay and renewal. Rather than treating nature as a subject to represent, I allow these materials and processes to participate in the formation of the work. Across painting, sculpture, installation and photography, I explore how matter carries memory and how human life remains continuous with other forms of existence. Drying, discoloration, erosion and decomposition are not endings, but transitions. By preserving their traces, I seek to make visible the forces that connect bodies, landscapes and time.