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Decorating your room with your friend’s paintings to enrich your life
Takano: I heard that your hobby is to appreciate paintings.
Otsuji: I have always been very fond of photography and art, of which photography was an extension of me, but I also like paintings, so I often go to see them.
Takano: I understand that you own some of your works.
Otsuji: Since I started working in this profession, I have gotten to know many artists and have many friends who draw pictures, so for the past few years, when I go to a private exhibition, I buy one and hang it in my room.
Celeina: So, most of the works you own are by people you know?
Otsuji: Almost all of them.These are all people I can talk to directly.
Takano: It is important to be able to talk to them, isn’t it?
Otsuji: It’s great because you can see the inside of the person. If I were to hang my own work, I would rather have a painting by a friend who is close to me than one by a foreigner from a long time ago whom I don’t know at all.
Celeina: Have there been any changes in your life by decorating your room with such works?
Otsuji: Simply put, when I change the pictures I hang in a room, it looks as if the whole wall has changed, as if it has been redecorated. That’s the best part.
Takano: Redecorating. Now that you mention it, that’s true.
Otsuji: Just by changing the painting, the color tone and taste of the whole wall changes completely. Depending on the time of day when sunlight enters the living room, the painting looks completely different. It’s very stylish (haha).
Takano: It is very stylish (haha).
Celeina：This gives me a hint to enrich my life. Now, “FIST BUMP” is a circle of friends connected by gootouch, so we are asking you to introduce us to your friends. What kind of people do you introduce to us, Mr. Otsuji?
Otsuji: It is Mr. Tsuyoshi Otsuka, the representative of Nippon Design Corporation and producer of Nakame Area Management.
Celeina: In a word?
Otsuji: He connects me with various people and listens to me. Simply put, he is like a sponge.
Takano: Sponge! That’s a good keyword.
Otsuji: Thanks to him, I have met many people, so he is like the hidden chief of Nakameguro.
Takano: He is both a sponge and a hidden chief. Tomorrow, I will connect you to Tsuyoshi Otsuka, the head of Japan Design Corporation and producer of Nakameguro Area Management.
Celeina: “FIST BUMP” today we have photographer Takahiro Otsuji. Thank you very much.
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