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    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
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    • one night in the gallery 2015
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    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
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    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
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      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
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    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
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    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
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Triumph, Color photographs, Diasec, Dibond, 30 x38.5 cm, edition of 8, 2004

Triumph 2004

My feeling about life is a curious kind of triumphant feeling about seeing it bleak knowing that it is so and walking into it fearlessly because one has no choice.
Georgia O’Keeffe

Every second we breathe, we see, hear, smell, touch and taste what surrounds us.
This series was made to celebrate our life in its essence: Mortal existence of life in itself.
When we are born, breathing is a triumph in itself.
We realize this again only when we are confronted with circumstances such as facing birth or death. "Triumph" is a personal view on valuing all individual lives: All paths of life from birth to death remains personal.No two people have identical lives, yet we live on the same planet. Somehow each individual brain selects what are the important moments. To me this is an individual 's memory. In this work, I wanted to express that every moment of life is a "triumph". Personally meaningful moments are often not as significant as facts in history books, But they are the more universal sensation of living, which can be the key of understanding life.
"Triumph" is about the
temporary moments that disappear each second. 
We can not live the same moment twice and this gives me the sensation of being a witness of disappearance. The uniqueness of each moment enhances the qualities of life as fragile, precious, mysterious and nostalgic.The photographic series " Triumph" came from the idea of making a movie from still images. When I reassemble the past in my photographic work, I feel as if the vanished time transforms into, continuous timelessness.
In this work there is no narration because my attempt is to visualize it as my personal memory.
It is a personal perception; therefore it has a fictional quality.
"Triumph" is my process of learning how to live; searching for unity between the world and my self."Triumph" is my participation in life by giving value to the past and keep on living the present.


This series is a homage to Japanese & Japanese-American people who lived through the second world war whom taught me the importance of appreciating the moments that we live. 
Many images are from Hawaii where I consider the most important place that influenced me.
I photographed all the images except for 3 images from my personal archive.( My grand parent's wedding in 1940's, the construction of a Japanese- American cemetery (1950), the funeral of a Japanese-American woman (1956).)

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Some examples of original peices from Odyssey : reflect  series
Odyssey : Reflect
Transform part one
Seesawspotting
interface
Catherine's Pier
Looking for "tree in the sun"
Combat exhibtion
Blond Ambition
Water field
Paradise lost
odyssey : reflect installation, extract reading & dance No no boy by John Okada (French)
Gratitude

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  • Home
  • News
  • Profile
  • Artist statement
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • Visual works
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Participate & Collaborate
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
  • Contact