Artist statement :
My visual works are colorful, emotional, playful and manually made. I enjoy working with diverse materials, transparency, texture and light.
In the visual practice, my main subjects are Japanese immigration, personal memories and individual & collective identity. I work with various techniques of re-reproduction of photography; unique pieces are created in this way and still presented to the audience as "photography".
The technical choices are conceptual & symbolic.
My core subject is human circumstances within a greater temporal context - the past, the present and the future. The works develops during many years and integrates in many forms from simple hand made objects to actions, installations, sounds and video works. I like to work on site-specific works and art in process.
The art works are constructed in combination of layers of two and more elements (that often includes ready made) that seems opposite or unrelated.
I create encounters / re-appropriation in my works to express the complex yet straightforward concurrence in the existence. I invites audiences to experience personal stories from my life, other people’s lives and our common lives. My art explores, our paradoxical existence, relating to daily life as well as history, and contemporary Life, becoming a form that nonetheless raises simple questions.
Since 2014, I create invisible & performance art. In these works, I question: “What is Humility?” I work in collaboration with other artists,
usually one-to-one. The audience is often invited to collaborate. The actions take place in chosen spaces, either in public or within an exhibition.
Some of these ‘actions’ are documented, depending upon context. My performances are more of a continuation of daily activities, such as walking, organization, dialogue or other shared experiences. There is no delineation between the audience and artists. The action is often without any precise announcement. I enjoy the idea that artwork can be presented uniquely to a single audience.
I wish to create art works that connects, includes, care, and doubts the present time for the up coming future.
My visual works are colorful, emotional, playful and manually made. I enjoy working with diverse materials, transparency, texture and light.
In the visual practice, my main subjects are Japanese immigration, personal memories and individual & collective identity. I work with various techniques of re-reproduction of photography; unique pieces are created in this way and still presented to the audience as "photography".
The technical choices are conceptual & symbolic.
My core subject is human circumstances within a greater temporal context - the past, the present and the future. The works develops during many years and integrates in many forms from simple hand made objects to actions, installations, sounds and video works. I like to work on site-specific works and art in process.
The art works are constructed in combination of layers of two and more elements (that often includes ready made) that seems opposite or unrelated.
I create encounters / re-appropriation in my works to express the complex yet straightforward concurrence in the existence. I invites audiences to experience personal stories from my life, other people’s lives and our common lives. My art explores, our paradoxical existence, relating to daily life as well as history, and contemporary Life, becoming a form that nonetheless raises simple questions.
Since 2014, I create invisible & performance art. In these works, I question: “What is Humility?” I work in collaboration with other artists,
usually one-to-one. The audience is often invited to collaborate. The actions take place in chosen spaces, either in public or within an exhibition.
Some of these ‘actions’ are documented, depending upon context. My performances are more of a continuation of daily activities, such as walking, organization, dialogue or other shared experiences. There is no delineation between the audience and artists. The action is often without any precise announcement. I enjoy the idea that artwork can be presented uniquely to a single audience.
I wish to create art works that connects, includes, care, and doubts the present time for the up coming future.