Invited, or tricked by the beauty

Beauty is very generous and easily shows up anywhere.
Water spilled on the floor is beautiful, or even crumpled paper scraps in the trash are admirable in their shapes.
Beauty invites our gaze here and there, unobtrusively saying, "Here I am." 

But at the same time, it's eccentric, hiding when we try to create and faking when we dare to find it. 
Everyone has experienced at least once or twice that something looks beautiful when you put a lot of thought into it, but not so much when you look at it closely and objectively. 

In other words, beauty is not something to look for, but something to wait for.
Perhaps there is an environment - including our consciousness and physical condition - that beauty likes.
Just as some creatures like dry or wet places. 

I want to discover little by little the environment and conditions that beauty prefers.
I create things with this in mind, rather than directly wanting to create beautiful things. 

This work was created by applying loose white paint on a black PVC board and placing a piece of wrinkled paper over it to make traces.
Although I conceived of this arrangement, I do not have complete control over the resulting image, nor do I attempt to control it. 

The title is "Mermaid”, because I perceived the resulting image to be like the scales of a mermaid left on a sandy beach. 
This work is no longer with me as it is sold to a collector, but even now, I sometimes wonder where that mermaid went after she lost her some scales on the beach.