His work seemingly looks like a black-and-white photo with a strong shadow. However it is not a photograph. If you get closed to it, you will notice apparently innumerable holes on the paper of the work. One hole is, so to speak, one pixel, and the set of the pixels forms one image. He made the holes by scorching one by one with the flame of an incense stick. The each scorched hole has a unique form, and the variety produces one fine spectacle on paper. The paper seems fragile to be going to collapse at any moment due to the innumerable holes on it. However, in contrast with the material fragility, the image that appears on the paper has sensational strength like a flashback. The motif of all the works exhibited to this exhibition is a tree. It is difficult to find any stories or a symbolism there. However, this is why his work is like a flashback, as if one fragment of a memory unexpectedly sprung up gives our minds a noise or a nostalgia going up faces our mind that not is are sometimes given. Ichikawa is also exhibiting his work in VOCA 2010 (held from March 14 to 30 at Ueno Royal Museum.