Born in 1984 in Higashi Osaka City, Hirata Yasuhiro currently lives in Yao City. Since the second year of middle school, he has been attending Atelier Hiko (in Hirano Ward, Osaka City) and now creates artwork about once a week.
Hirata has repeatedly drawn profile portraits as well as tools from his father’s construction workplace, such as caulking guns, nails, and paint cans.
The tube-shaped objects began around 2004, a time of major life changes including graduating from a special-needs school and the death of his grandmother. It all started when his father happened to bring home a cardboard tube.
Hirata drives countless nails at regular intervals into the unstable curved surface, then draws swirling circles around them. According to him, he is creating his favorite food, corn on the cob.
He was deeply absorbed in making these “corns” for about 10 years. Afterwards, he gradually slowed down to hammering one or two nails per day, but around the time the 2020 COVID-19 state of emergency was announced, this passion reignited.