Takeya Ochiai is an artist who is learning and creating his work to define himself to what his aesthetics are. He has an appreciation towards his nationality of Japanese simplicity art form convey the thoughts in simple yet easy to conveying the deep message. Takeya's interest goes into into study of past like history, but also into pop cultures such as games, comics/mangas, and animation. Learning history from past great artworks and humanities success and failures and see the commonality in the modern era. Even the modern trends, as Takeya sees, is what the current interest of the people that would shape the modern day. He wants to incorporate these aspects of thoughts through his works.