In my installation and sculpture, I treat the dust left by life cycles and human activities. They contain information and memories of people who had been there. By using them as my materials, I aim to express anonymous people's memories and history, things which exist between life and death, and the beauty of impurity. Themes of remembrance and oblivion, presence and absence resonate throughout my work.
On Installations with Human Hair
In this installation, I treat the dust left by life cycles and human activities. To be more specific, human hair gathered from exhibit space that had once been with someone anonymous. They contain information and memories of people who had been there - or it could be not human but other creatures. They have relation to gene, life.
By using them as my materials, I create other forms and attempt to express anonymous people's memories and history, who had been and lived here. It is concise way but I think it could show "Images of Unknown" to grasp the circumstance of this changing moment.
On Sculptures with Chewed Gum
This work is a polymer clay model of a human parts of the body decorated with chewed gum. Waste excreted from human body had been considered to be impurities and been avoided, on the other hand they had been treated as a sacred things in rituals and myths. I am interested in such an ambivalent appearance, and also its texture -tuck a certain period of time and space in its folds, like cell division-. I aim to combine these elements and express an ambiguous situation in my work by creation a hybrid of waste and life.