I have moved a lot in the past nine years, staying at a ruin, an abondoned house, an old apartment, a flophouse, a bar, the exhibition space of an art gallery. I would collect water to paint. This is "scorched painting." I have "scorched" verious water: remaining water at bath, spring water, river water, rain water, sea water, and lake water. Water is transparent when painting, but it becomes "colors" when it touches fire and then things contained in water emerge. A painting comes out. It emerges, the scorched things came from the sea and eventually they go back there again. The reunion of the particles after long periods of time. 

Chiharu Mizukawa
Born in Osaka in 1981. Living life on the move, Mizukawa paints with waste materials and domestic wastewater that come out of each home she stays. The major exhibitions she participated include: Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival (Nagano,) Arafudo Art Annual (Fukushima,) and ART PROJECT OITA/Oita Museum of Contemporary Art (Oita) in 2013, TOKYO FRONTLINE (Tokyo,) visible horizon (Melbourne,) Sumida River ArtProject (Tokyo,) Chiharu MIZUKAWA in Ishinomaki (Miyagi,) Art Line Kashiwa (Chiba,) and KIITO Artist in Residence (Hyogo) in 2012, Kotobuki Art Project, Exhibition in Town (Kanagawa) in 2011, Kofu Art Festival (Yamanashi) in 2010, Hiroshima Art Project (Hiroshima,) and Mix Bathing World (Oita) in 2009, 101 TOKYO Contemporary Art Fair (Tokyo,) Continuing power of Asia (Seoul,) and wanakio (Okinawa) in 2008, BankART Open Studio (Kanagawa) in 2007, and Toride Art Project (Ibaraki) in 2006. 

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Chiharu Mizukawa
sea, ground, town, snow, 2013
courtesy of the artist and Island