静かな水の中にも、速度はある。 POND 04 — Current は、細いS字状の流れを画面に通し、シリーズの中でも少し強い速度感を持たせた作品です。 朱赤と墨は抑えめに使い、線と淡い色面が連続して流れることで、水の方向だけがはっきりと見えてきます。 左右の石は静止したまま、中央の流れだけが速度を持つ。 激しさではなく、静けさの中に存在する流れの力を描いています。 Even quiet water can carry speed. POND 04 — Current introduces a slender S-shaped flow, giving this work a stronger sense of direction and momentum than the others in the series. Vermilion and charcoal remain restrained. Instead, the movement emerges through continuous lines and translucent layers. The stones stay still while the current alone carries velocity. This is not turbulence, but the quiet force of water in motion. SERIES — POND POND abstracts the presence of nishikigoi and pond stones into movement, stillness, water, and negative space. The fish are not treated as literal subjects. Instead, vermilion, charcoal, ivory, translucent washes, and fine flowing lines suggest their movement through water. Stones shift between dark, pale, sharp-edged, softened, and partially dissolved forms. The open ivory field functions as water itself. POND is built around the tension between two states: motion and stillness. The visual center of each work is not the koi or the stones, but the quiet interval between them. ABOUT RITSUKO NISHIMURA Ritsuko Nishimura works with negative space, light, air, silence, and the moment just before a form disappears. Rather than asking how much more can be added, her work focuses on where to stop. Empty space is not treated as absence, but as a place where light, time, and distance can exist. Starting from recognizable motifs, she reduces them into color, texture, gesture, and interval—leaving room for each viewer to enter the work through their own perception.