I have been creating works that move between images and words, dream and reality, light and shadow.

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I have long been interested in forms of expression where stories and images are closely intertwined, such as myths, fairy tales, children’s literature, picture books, and manga. Through images and words, objects and space, I feel that I have been exploring the moment when a world is born.

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Motifs such as children, animals, masks, rooms, forests, lakes, gardens, and stars appear repeatedly in my works. They exist as entrances through which emotions and traces of memory, before they become words, can be woven into stories.

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For me, painting, making picture books, and working with old objects are all connected as attempts to discover the traces dwelling in images and objects, and to reconnect them as stories. And from that point of connection, a world begins to emerge.