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I visited Japan for the first time in November of last year, and it was Ube, Yamaguchi prefecture. Far from Tokyo or Osaka cities where are well known to people. I drew the gathered emotions and feeling from there.

This place is a kind of backward town and very unique in many ways. It is a city, but there are few people. There is not much movement on the road, on the street, so it feels like time is running out. There are no high-rise buildings and houses. Only low-rise buildings form the center of the city, with a view to the far sky. So when I first arrived here, the feeling was simple or leisurely.

I'm basically a person who does not go out of the house. But I went Ube the city where even Japanese doesn't go and felt many things.

On the last day, I roamed the streets alone. From then on, this warm city came through my body with a completely different feeling. A city using a different language. A street without human trace. And I am left alone far from my home. The feelings of loneliness, fear, and alienation from all of these things burdened me heavily. In this city, I felt that I was only one which is unsuitable. Like dust coming into a clean room. Feel like a stranger. On the contrary, the situation made me and allowed me to observe myself for the first time. 'Oh, myself is feel like this.' It is hard to express in words, but I walked the streets alone and learned many things I did not know about me. This was so enormous that I thought I might write it down at the time, but it couldn't be. Since I am a person who expresses in drawing rather than a words, I just took a feeling and describe it.

Although the introduction is long, basically, "Bachigai" in English means "it is not in the place where it should be originally" meaning that it started based on that.

I put the simple but neat and beautiful street in the background and conceived myself in the center of it. Skateboarding implies my own free-will, but at that point I borrowed a skeleton to express myself observing myself in the distance, ie, observing me objectively without me. Fear and loneliness that I felt are also inherent. The not-good gazes which people sent to me. Was that because of I'm stranger? I do not know. At the same time, I was able to make more of it in that situation, as if I was already wet with mud, I did not care about splashing rain. So I added guns and skeletons in drawing. In fact, the skeleton is a medium that allows me to convey a lot of meaning. So my usual picture seems to have a lot of skeletons.

I placed a cherry blossom behind my strange image. I thought the contrast would be fun.

The cherry blossoms were further refined and expanded.

I tried putting it in front of a person and giving a perspective. However, I excluded because the background is going to be complicated.

I thought that if the street where I walked really in the background of drawing, it would be nice. So I referred the picture I took by myself and drew it.

I walked here and thought about various things.

The sketch was roughly completed and I changed the overall tone before filling the color.

First color placement. The gradation also seems to be unlikely to match my drawing. It's not bad, but it's a lot different from what I think. I draw on my computer. But at least I hope to have a feeling of handful touches on it.

Second color placement. And the face turned from an abstract feeling to a skull. A little more changed to the feeling I wanted. In fact, it really takes a lot of time to change one color layout. I have to look at the drawing as a whole and zoom in. For each color saturation to be connected organically.