I create across surfaces and objects, from drawing and painting to mixed-media work, and installation-based forms. I am drawn to moments when vitality seems on the verge of disappearing, and I work to make that fragile yet rugged energy perceptible again through sensory and material encounters.

Through my work, I investigate the ambivalence of “energy”―a word in both English and my native Japanese, that describes psychic forces shaping inner and collective life as well as the physical fuel systems that power modern society with profound ecological consequences. Rather than presenting energy as spectacle, I approach it as both sustaining and destructive, intimate and infrastructural. The most intimate unit of energy could be said to be a human emotion, and the most infrastructural unit could be electricity, etc. Yet because they are all “energy”, the principle of their existence remains the same.

Long-term research and travel since 2011 —to Fukushima, the Amazon, traditional healers, organic farms run by descendants of atomic bomb survivors, and communities resisting nuclear power—have shaped my understanding of how energy is unevenly distributed across bodies and landscapes. I observe recurring power structures at every scale: urban demand versus rural sacrifice, authoritarian systems versus individual agency, solitude versus solidarity, and even the oscillation between self-blame and the desire for happiness within each individual. These dynamics echo the finite yet mysterious balances found in nature and inform my stance and material choices.