SILVANA: 1985 Memories of Yuigahama

This work constructs the midsummer sun, the clear blue sky, and the sea endlessly reflecting intense light as material oscillations, grounded in UNDULATION's signature silver texture.

At the top of the screen, the sky shimmers turquoise, undulating with thick, carved strokes. In the upper right, a scorching sun rises like a swirling vortex. This copper-red spiral is not merely a celestial body; it exists as the core of memory, an energy nucleus containing the restlessness and fervor of that time.

Lowering my gaze, I see a sea of silver layered upon itself, sharply and relentlessly reflecting light. The waves are not calm. They possess a rhythm yet carry an underlying tension, holding a quiet unease within.

The setting for this work is Yuigahama Beach in Kamakura, a place the author loves dearly. It's the coastline he frequented every summer weekend in his early twenties. Yet the memories from that time cannot be described solely as a sense of liberation. There were financial anxieties, struggles with work and living conditions, and a vague sense of urgency about the future. Even while standing under the intense sun, a shadow always lingered deep within his heart.

The silver in this work is not merely an expression of light. It is a reflective surface for the complex emotions that settled beneath the glare: hope and impatience, freedom and restraint, liberation and anxiety. These conflicting emotions form layers, carved away and built up, frozen as waves.

Though a dazzling summer scene, it carries an air of tension—that is surely why. What lies here is not an idealized memory of the sea. It is an unfinished, shifting, yet undeniably living cross-section of the spirit of that time.

The silver waves are not a glow to romanticize the past, but a structure to encapsulate the ambiguous and fragile self as it was. This work, borrowing the midsummer scenery as a backdrop, is a fragment of UNDULATION that materializes the author's own youthful inner oscillations.