Toru Hayashi is a visual artist whose practice centers on drawing as a means of constructing landscapes from memory. Since 1998, he has produced one drawing each day in his ongoing project, Equivocal Landscape. These works do not depict observed scenes but emerge from internal images, forming a continuous record of experience as it is recalled, displaced, and reconfigured over time.

 

Working through repetition and accumulation, Hayashi’s practice develops as a long-term inquiry into how memory operates without resolution. Each drawing is accompanied by a title indicating date, location, and a color associated with the day’s mood, establishing a notational structure that links image, language, and time while resisting fixed meaning.

 

His work engages the notion of location not as a stable site, but as a condition shaped by perception, context, and recall. Through the interplay between physical surroundings and internal images, the drawings attend to moments that do not fully register, allowing them to persist without being resolved into narrative or representation.

 

Extending this process into installation and other media, Hayashi examines how landscapes are constructed between perception and imagination, and how memory is continually reorganized through this process. Informed in part by his background in mathematics, he approaches drawing as a way of articulating relationships between systems that seek resolution and those that do not, positioning the work within this tension.