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In Baudelaire's collection, "Les fleurs du mal," the poem Correspondences suggests that our daily world is a forest of pillars that supports a temple in which everything reverberates. Various scents mix and create new life.

In the Bright Forest series, Ichigo Sugawara presents a true figure of nature, the reflection of the world and the way of living as a human being. Through his contemplative approach to the universe, nature is presented in The Pillars from the Piazza di San Marco and the Tsubaki as a jointly sacred place reflecting a mystical experience. The pillars, though all the same, have weathered into their own unique personalities through time much like humans. The Tsubaki, (meaning camellia in Japanese) have a special status in the tea ceremony, which was developed as a transformation process of the self, growing with its own aesthetic based on quietness, respect and harmony. These symbols unify and connect each other through a gradual and psychological experience, forming bridges between their vision, meaning and hidden sense.

 

Sugawara states, "I am still spending my days faced with various objects. When i work with something new and different, I find, fortunately, bright places, a warm place on the other side of the forest. And that arises almost as a logical necessity and has a great deal of explanatory power."