
Light Between Objects: Tomoyo Hirota's Intimate Scenes

Golden and white lines traverse a textured dark field, intersecting like branches, cracks, or neural paths. This dynamic abstraction evokes nature and systems—suggesting movement, tension, and unseen connections across layered surfaces.

A soft, pale shape rests atop a warm brown field beneath a golden sky. Minimal and evocative, this piece captures the tactile essence of butter—its stillness, its weight, its quiet glow. An abstract meditation on warmth, memory, and the poetry of the everyday.

Inspired by the traditional Japanese tatami mat, this minimalist composition captures the quiet geometry of domestic space. A black band cuts diagonally across a muted surface, evoking structure, balance, and cultural memory through the language of abstraction.

Subtle shifts of texture and tone define this quiet abstraction. A soft divide between grey and off-white fields suggests fabric, mist, or memory. The ochre band above interrupts the softness, offering balance and contrast. A study in quiet tension and material sensitivity.

This minimal interior scene invites quiet observation. Bold planes of color—green, yellow, and deep blue—define furniture in a sunlit space. With no figures present, the composition evokes stillness, absence, and the poetic potential of an ordinary room.

A soft arch frames a hazy golden view, where faint lines suggest wires or distant hills. Though titled “Untitled,” this quiet piece evokes a sense of stillness and interiority—like sunlight through a window, or a fleeting moment seen from a moving train.

Tiny dark marks scatter across a muted surface like raindrops frozen in mid-air or captured on a quiet ground. This minimalist composition invites viewers to slow down and notice the subtle rhythms of nature—where silence, repetition, and randomness become a form of poetry.

A slanted red line cuts through a muted beige wall, capturing a fleeting moment of urban geometry. Titled after Suidobashi Station, this minimal composition transforms a mundane architectural detail into a study of contrast, rhythm, and the quiet poetry of transit spaces.

Subtle graphite lines trace gentle arcs across a pale grey field, inviting close observation. Minimal yet intentional, the composition suggests contours—of bodies, landscapes, or garments—hovering between presence and absence, silence and form.

Diagonal red strokes slash across a pale surface in rhythmic intervals. Each line, raw and slightly frayed, evokes tension—suggesting motion, rupture, or ritual. Minimal in form yet rich in energy, this piece invites contemplation on repetition, memory, and mark-making.

In this playful abstraction, bright yellow and green segments float gently on a pale ground—suggesting slices of a pumpkin, reimagined. “Pumpkin 23” evokes the warmth of everyday life through color, repetition, and a touch of whimsy.

