Thus in Shimamoto space and time are affirmed with the power of gestures during the performance, then dulled during the ritual of the cut and the frame of the canvas and finally denied if we consider the representation of these elements in the canvas itself.
And it is precisely in this continuous unfolding of space-time events, performance-cutting frame-finished work that is the strength of his art and of the message the artist wants to spread: a space-time that is affirmed and denied in the same "instant", in a deep entanglement between observer-artist-work of art.