Over the past four years Kikuma has been experimenting with common household devices and tools instead of paint brushes to create images that are unexpected but somewhat familiar and intriguing. His focus is more on capturing accidental marks and effects that often happen in the process of making something else. In other words, errors that inevitably occur within the system of making something have become the source of his inspiration. 

So far twelve series of Variations have been produced in the last 4 years. Each series has been made by following specific methods. For example the first series started when he found a parabola-like mark appear on an ink soaked canvas when it was being dried on a radiator. In the following series other tools were used outside of their intended use which include reclaimed laser-cut off cuts, hair dryers, atomisers and gardening sprayers. Over the years he has become increasingly interested in how things around him, which he thinks he knows so well, can bring suprises by manifesting themselves in the least expected ways.  His current interest is ultimately to create an environment for these 'happy accidents' to happen and somehow capture them.