About the Artist



The creator of SWEETWATER and its contents is me, Natsuki Kimura.

I live in the beautiful city of Urayasu, Chiba, Japan with my wonderful wife, Miyo.

I make a living as a designer.

Sources of inspiration? Plenty. Mark Rothko, Richard Brautigan, Toshinobu Onosato, Warren Zevon (RIP), Stephen Colbert, Woody Guthrie, Robert Cornell, William Klein, Kate Bush, John Zorn, The Smashing Pumpkins, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Trouble in Mind, Jack the Ripper, Hideaki Anno, Trotsky, 1st Ave. (Seattle), David Carson, Aphex Twin, the Woz, Johnny Cash (RIP), the Bomb, the Vietnam War, Charles Bukowski, Ed Wood, Sen Katayama, Philip Glass, Streetwise, Huey Long, Truman Capote, Lindsey Buckingham, the IWW, Hunter S. Thompson (RIP), Hope cigarettes, the Troubles, Robert Moog (RIP), Rieko Saibara, Steve Dahl, Nirvana, Tsubaki Yamaguchi, Mobile Suit Gundam, the Steinberger bass, the Olympus Pen, Pere Ubu, Derry, Belfast, Brixton, Glasgow, King's Cross, Tobita Shinchi (Osaka), Kotobuki-cho (Yokohama), Fritz Lang -- and how could I forget the late, great Mr. Anderson of Niles West High School, Skokie, Illinois.

Exhibitions
Paste and Pixels, Core Gallery, New Paltz, New York (6/14/2001-8/12/2001)
-s-u-p-e-r-p-o-s-i-t-i-o-n- partie 2, Gallery Satoru, Kichijoji, Tokyo (5/21/2002-6/2/2002)

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