Yukihito Okabe

Currently enrolled at Kibo no Sono (Mie Prefecture). Born in 1994. Autistic. He creates artworks by painting with crayon, then scraping it with a needle to erase the color, collecting the resulting crayon shavings and playing with them like clay. Recently, he has expanded his production methods, adding poster colors to crayons on boards or canvases, coloring the surfaces, and then scraping them with a needle. In fact, the lumps made from the collected shavings (which he calls "koroichi") are the real works for him, and the resulting paintings are just shavings that he is not interested in.