Background to the making of “SANKAKU MATOU”. > > > > The words “SANKAKU MATOU” popped into my head just before the summer of 2019. I tried to turn them into something real - fabric bags which I have been making ever since. The making of “SANKAKU MATOU” accelerated when all my shows were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic from the spring to summer of 2020 . During that period I did not feel like making anything else but “SANKAKU MATOU”. I could think of the practical reasons behind such feeling but I could not pinpoint the real intention. Then one night, while I might have been dreaming, someone gave me the answer. I have been seeing a triangle on my right palm for a couple of years. There is a line of fate and along with this line I see an isosceles triangle pointing towards my right middle finger. It kept bothering me so I consulted with a palmist, but wasn’t given any clear answer. And I forgot about it.
Then in my dream, someone touched my hand gently along the line and that reminded me of that triangle. I had been sensing something for sometime and it was clarified as the triangle on my palm, which I believed was a reminder that the right time had come for me to make “SANKAKU MATOU”. I suppose that the someone in my dream was I, myself - I’ve always had the strange sensation that there might be another self observing myself. Now, hanging a “SANKAKU MATOU” on the wall and observing it, I feel it has a certain existence, or presence, as a “being”, as if it had already existed and not made by me. I am myself but am I really? It is very strange feeling. The triangle, matching with the line of fate on my palm. Along that line, it would bring itself to the place where it is most suitable.