The theme that runs through all of Tama's works is "I'm alone, but not lonely”. Tama believes that even though living is a solitary experience, the presence of "something overwhelming" can alleviate the feeling of absolute loneliness that threatens one's life. Tama Shizuku was born and raised in Tokyo. But what was etched in her mind was "Tono," where her mother was born and raised. Tono, a region with unique folklore as the keynote of its culture, was enough to instill in Tama, as a child, a sense of "something" that she could not feel in Tokyo, and a sense of causal-ity from her ancestors that has continued unbroken in her veins. Tama began to express these sensations in the form of art when she got married and had children, spending almost all of her time with them.
Today, Tama is the mother of four children, all of whom seem to melt away from the boundaries of their "surroundings," including other people, society, and the natural environment, and enter into their own worlds. To adults, this is "fantasy" or "imagination," but Tama felt that this world is an undeniable "fact" for the children.
And it is in this "fact" that "something overwhelming" exists. Through art, Tama creates a place where prospectors themselves can feel the power to sense that existence, and where they can feel that existence. By doing so, she is questioning how to deal with the "loneliness" that is with us as long as we live, or to put it another way, how to question our sense of "what we are not," such as others, society, and the unseen. She is currently working mainly with digital painting, but She also paints on canvas upon request.