I use personal memories as material for my work, which is about the "landscape" associated with the memories that are triggered and impressed by my everyday life. Envisioning the past through the images and meanings of memories, I question what lies between me and words.

My studio practice involves transforming my daily experience into abstract views on paper, wood board, and canvas using photographic images, oil, watercolor, and acrylic. I also create an installation composed of drawings, paintings, and mixed media.

 

My work is concerned with expressing location: where I situate myself as an artist and how "location" (or locale) can manifest social characteristics and function as a communicative platform for drawing attention to seemingly trivial observations of everyday life. Through the relationship between my own physical location and surroundings, I pursue novel ways of seeing and understanding things from everyday life that are seemingly already well known. Mathematics, which I majored in at college in Japan, helps me clarify vague ideas in my art. For instance, a mathematical way of seeing what and how prime numbers exist allows me to conceive how memory might compare to them.