While my practice is rooted in analog photography, I draw inspiration from zen practice and Japanese tradition of paper-making, as well as geography and biology. My artistic focus is to create artworks that mediate between nature and humans’ conception of ‘nature’ (including humans and universe). Using meditative observations and collaborative processes with nature, I explore interrelationship, ephemera, circulation and vagueness in nature that exists beyond our understanding in everyday life.

   My photographic process is a simple imitation of the living things and environments on Earth, which is a ritual to restore an unbroken circulation of the sun’s energy.

  Sunlight is my sole light source for both shooting and printing. For now, I mainly create portraits of nature from 4x5” film negatives, which I print on Gampi paper (standing for plants) with the help of sunlight, water, minerals, and eggs (standing for animals). The resulting work expresses the transitory status of life, light, atmosphere and energy, which are ever changing. 

   Simultaneously, I am attracted by washi (和紙Japanese paper) itself. In washi making, plants' fibers are kept intact, rather than being chopped, preserving their natural strength.

   I started to explore the physical and aesthetic integration of photographic prints and paper making. When embedded, the photographs and objects are held by immumerable fibers and become a part of 'whole' paper. The paper's blank, 'holding' space looks empty, yet actually is a viblant mass of particles of photosynthetic energy.

   The paper I make would be a representation of ground, water, and atmosphere that expands the enmeshed images and objects, or a field where the energy of the subjects I sensed phisycally is visualized. I will explore possibilities if expression and meaning that such commingling relationships create.

   These photographic works are main components of my ongoing art project ‘• ◯ ☉,  TeN eN Hi’ (dot, circle, the sun). The project explores relationships between individuals and wholeness in nature with implying the ephemeral and cyclic ecological relationships under the sun. 

   With the advent of surplus production and greed, human activities have deviated further and further from the sustainable cyclic system of energy on the earth.  As a tiny part of nature, I would like to be humbled myself to become a reminder of it with my work.     link to the project page