Goodbye My Chrysanthemum
2022
H70” W30” D18”
Steel, fabric, LED
This self-portrayal work describes raw sentiments and trauma of my girlhood, hanging from a hanger as an object, at the same time, a life. It articulates the experience of both violence and fear, abundance and desire to grow. I have been/will be repeating this process of evolution throughout my life.
Plastic Statistics
(Left) Plastic Statistics -Suicide, Happiness, Modern Slavery-
(Right) Plastic Statistics -Covid-19, WHO, IOM, IMF-
2021
H48" W24" L2"
Acrylic on LED panel
Three world maps are colored based on statistics and other information related to globalization. It mimicks the ever-changing database and analysis about today's world we are monitoring. I wanted to explore the way we process information through visual content and the aftertaste of its consumption. "Understanding the world" from the statistic maps seems nearly impossible to me.
(Right) Plastic Statistics -Covid-19, WHO, IOM, IMF-
2021
H48" W24" L2"
Acrylic on LED panel
Three world maps are colored based on statistics and other information related to globalization. It mimicks the ever-changing database and analysis about today's world we are monitoring. I wanted to explore the way we process information through visual content and the aftertaste of its consumption. "Understanding the world" from the statistic maps seems nearly impossible to me.
Book
HOME (2021)
This book consists of historical facts, photographs, and essays based on the survivors’ real stories and scripts about Japanese American Internment during World War II. I hope this book will support awareness against collective violence that could occur by fear and hatred toward particular groups of people. It is called injustice, prejudice, corruption, greed, media hysteria, racism, segregation, incarceration, genocide; it is a history and a persistent issue across/within countries.
As a Japan-born artist who has lived in America for more than ten years, it was painful to learn what Japanese Americans went through over the last hundred years. At the same time, an inspiration to reflect on what is happening to Muslim people since 9/11, or Asian people since the rise of political tension with China, or divided ideologies in America, or other countless situations in the world. Where is my home, Where my heart belongs—is a question we would ask when we face betrayal from our beloved countries and people, when we could not obtain our secure homes, or security itself.
This book consists of historical facts, photographs, and essays based on the survivors’ real stories and scripts about Japanese American Internment during World War II. I hope this book will support awareness against collective violence that could occur by fear and hatred toward particular groups of people. It is called injustice, prejudice, corruption, greed, media hysteria, racism, segregation, incarceration, genocide; it is a history and a persistent issue across/within countries.
As a Japan-born artist who has lived in America for more than ten years, it was painful to learn what Japanese Americans went through over the last hundred years. At the same time, an inspiration to reflect on what is happening to Muslim people since 9/11, or Asian people since the rise of political tension with China, or divided ideologies in America, or other countless situations in the world. Where is my home, Where my heart belongs—is a question we would ask when we face betrayal from our beloved countries and people, when we could not obtain our secure homes, or security itself.