―How did you feel about holding your first solo exhibition?

Limitsu Itagaki: About a year after receiving the talk, I've been thinking about the concept, the flow of the work, and the work itself, so when I brought it to the gallery and saw my work lined up all over the wall, it was very impressive There was something. 

―Osaka will be the third solo exhibition in Tokyo and Nagoya, but how about looking back so far?

Limitsu Itagaki: Co-stars and related people also came, but I am very grateful that I was able to see a different aspect from my usual work site and that I felt something from my work I thought. The impression of the work received from customers is also from an angle that I don't imagine, so it's very fresh to think that I'm watching it with a sensibilities that I don't have. Until now, I have been presenting works digitally, so I feel that it is a really valuable opportunity to see them directly and give them impressions. 

―The title is "love and thirst." Why did you choose the theme of "thirst"?

Limitsu Itagaki: It's a lot of work to output, so you have to keep inputting so that you don't die. But it's not mandatory for me, but reading books and touching various things is one of the things I've always done. Among them, I met the twelve factors of Buddhism, which have twelve elements that cause suffering in human life. One of them is love. I've always thought that it would be interesting if this was the theme of my own work, so this time I heard this story and then I made a solo exhibition like a story with the theme of thirst. I wonder if it would be interesting.

―It was the origin of Buddhism. How did you decide to work on a new method this time? 
  
Since around the summer of last year, I've been touching pictures in a movie called "Blue Period". You've been practicing painting before you started shooting. I've been painting for a long time, but I didn't go to school or learn from my teacher, so for the first time, let me tell you what painting is art. I came into contact with various art materials, and one thing I thought would be interesting if I could combine the digital paintings I had painted on my own with oil paintings. Also, as a textured expression of the relative theme of love and thirst, which is the theme of this time, I thought that the inorganicity of digital and the freshness of paint will respond well. 

―Did you have any new discoveries or notices that were actually produced?
 
I thought it was fun for myself while drawing, but in fact, I heard from customers that it was interesting in a way that I had never seen before, that I saw the combination of digital and oil painting for the first time, and felt more possibilities. As a method of production, I felt that I wanted to pursue more things.