I used to work part-time as a gardener in my neighborhood.　 Because it was a short-term job, I was entrusted with a job that anyone could do —  clearing the fallen branches and leaves.　 The craftsman's skill was speedy, and branches and leaves fell one after another from the tree.　 They were released from the rational forms of photosynthesis they were doing until that moment and fell to the ground, creating a free arrangement.　

When thinking about Osaki Tomu's paintings for some reason I remembered the ground and the cut and scattered plants.　 Of course, we can use psychoanalytic theory to compare the multidimensional aspects of the juxtaposition of these images with those of other artists, or to explain paintings as a receptacle of memory.　 I know that it would yield fruitful results, but the leaves and branches that the gardener drops as he arranges the plants seem to be somehow connected to Osaki's paintings where planning and coincidence coexist.　

It seems that there are differences in the way of pruning depending on the type of plant and the craftsman, but according to what I hear, there are also variations in the way of cutting depending on the direction of the branches, and the craftsman seems to prune the tree while judging it in the moment.　 Because of that, pruning is not a simple task, such as cutting large branches and then fine-tuning them, but sometimes relatively large branches are cut as the work progresses.　 As a result, this process gives an expression to the fallen branches and leaves.　

The overlapping of branches and the way the volume of leaves changes depending on the wind direction.　 Another similarity to Osaki's painting is that various patterns by plants are born from one tree when traced back to the original.　 This is because the images are a manifestation of something that has been plucked from memories and experiences that grow within Osaki, a single human being.　 Just as it is difficult to imagine the original state from the cut branches and leaves, it is not easy to retroactively recall the original idea of his paintings.　

The gesture of a gardener throwing a cut branch to the ground is reminiscent of the gesture of "scattering " an image on a plane, which is also an important keyword in Osaki's production.　 In Osaki's work, just as if the craftsman were half-unconsciously dropping the branches and leaves to the ground, the whole universe is scattered on a plane and scatter diagrams are created one after the other.　

Tsukada Yutaka (Critic) 

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