Toru Hayashi is a visual artist whose practice centers on drawing to construct landscapes from memory. Since 1998, he has created one drawing each day in his ongoing project Equivocal Landscape, using personal recollection to explore how memory shapes perception and meaning. These drawings do not depict observed scenes but emerge from internal images, forming a continuous record of shifting experience over time.

 

Working through repetition and accumulation, Hayashi’s practice unfolds as a long-term inquiry into the relationship between memory, image, and place. Each drawing is accompanied by a title noting date, location, and a color associated with the day’s mood, establishing a notational system that links image, language, and time.

 

His work is also concerned with the notion of location—how one situates oneself within a given environment and how place carries social and perceptual conditions. Through the interplay between physical surroundings and internal recollection, Hayashi attends to seemingly minor or overlooked aspects of everyday life, opening them to renewed perception.

 

Extending this process into installation and other media, his work examines how memory is continually reconfigured and how landscapes are constructed between perception and imagination. Influenced in part by his background in mathematics, he approaches drawing as a means of clarifying abstract relationships where structures of thought and systems of perception intersect.