Animation | 01 January 2004

Since the early days, Hayakawa's works have been established by hand-drawn moving images and digitally processed reproduction and proliferation, and the precision of this process has been accelerating in proportion to the evolution of video equipment. The balance between the organic nature of the vital movement that stimulates the fundamental part of human perception and the abstractness of the work's composition is pleasant. His challenge to always keep an eye on the cutting edge of video technology seems to be exploring a new animation language, and shows us the possibilities of images that can only be achieved through animation. (Koji Yamamura, January 2010)