Artist’s Statement   

 

During my life I have experienced two different cultures which are east and west. I was born and grew up in Japan and came to Ireland when I was in my late 20’s. Through this experience, I always see things from a different angle, how one object can merge into other objects and incorporate with others. In my practice, I focus on object  rather than subject and weigh up the process of making art rather than themes. My works explore my subconscious, daydreams or feeling. In other words, my artworks depend on my everyday feeling and mood.  Materials, especially fabric is an important medium for me. Material’s softness, familiarity, tactility, and intimacy enable me to express my feeling and embody a kind of sentiment in my mind. Colours, especially bright and artificial colours are vital for my works to play with my strange and imaginative animals and human-like figurative images and give life to them. I intend to combine different images and colours which could be mixing up, messing up and becoming somehow meaningless or meaningful but this is my way of expressing my aesthetic. I embrace unbalance, ambivalence, ambiguity and indefiniteness which I believe these contradictory elements reveal true beauty.