Japanese / English

Sometimes, we find ourselves inexplicably drawn to a certain “something” about an everyday scene.
Unable to pinpoint the reasons behind it, we are often content to contemplate its beauty or taste.

These findings can be trivial, hidden from view in plain sight, in ways we tend not to notice.
They are also very fleeting, often forgotten immediately on discovery, in the next moment we look away.

Still, they manage to latch onto some undefined recess of our memory,
surfacing again with the right cue somewhere in our brains, like a feeling of deja vu.

When we attempt to analyze this “something,” we venture it is the result of some natural phenomenon met by pure coincidence,
or a law of physics, or a vestige of our ancestors, or a myriad other things.

Discussing it in precise terms, however, proves difficult.
The moment we put it in words, it vanishes abruptly, like a bubble in thin air.

It is this fleeting but definite “something,” tucked away in familiar scenes and peripheral views,
that I want to capture and distill on my own creative terms.
Through the use of texture and form and interactions with various phenomena,
​ I want to create works that can be enjoyed visually.

I also plan to see if—through these works—I can call on and forge similar connections with the memories of others.