no art, no life

Fujioka Yuki uses scissors to cut at a width of not even 0.1mm, and an unusual object is born.

With his impaired hands, the "Master Painter" Kawakami Kenji has never stopped painting.

The dolls Sekiguchi Naoko makes in private each have their own name and life story.

Like a home movie, a father in France films his family and his artist son Todoroki Shuto.

Shitahaku Suguru loves escalators more than anything and captures them in drawings.

What color should I fill the world with today? In Miyazawa Sachiko's eyes, cherry blossoms and hydrangeas glow with brilliant colors. She loves noise and has many allies who support her art making.

Matsushita Takanori takes a nail and single-mindedly hammers it into a tree branch. His mother taught him to do this, and until age 50, he never left home and stayed by her side, hammering nails.

Starting with dogs and cats, Ebiko Yohta has been drawing his favorite animals all his life. Without making a rough sketch, he dashes off a picture using oil pastels. He's done over 10,000 drawings.

Once she picks up a crayon, no one can stop her. With intense concentration and in the blink of an eye, Arami Mao draws pictures of tigers, polar bears and other animals she loves.

Taking yarn and needle in hand, Kamogawa Naomi's cheerful smile transforms into the face of an artist. Carefully knitting various colors of yarn, she produces rainbow-like patterns.