Recent Projects:

Invisible Lands 6 – Shoes, Archival Pigment Ink Print, 2016, 31″x40”

Invisible Lands 5 – A Boy, Archival Pigment Ink Print, 2014, 41″x58”

Invisible Lands 2– Group Shot, Archival Pigment Ink Print, 2013, 41″x58”

Untitled, Archival Pigment Ink Print, 2016, 11″x14”

Invisible Lands series and Untitled series are developed in collaboration with Lost and Found Project in Japan. I started this series in response to the photographs collected in Yamamoto, small town in Miyagi, after the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami and earthquake.

Aboveground 2 (Tokyo, 1945, Off Highway 5, CA, 2010), 2012, Archival pigment print, 43”x43”x 4”

Aboveground 2 (Tokyo, 1945, Indiana, 2011), 2012, Archival pigment print, dimension variable, 43”x43” (print size)

Aboveground 2 series incorporate my own photograph as a top layer of the piece. Viewers see the historical image from the WWII through the cut-out parts of my photograph. Two photographs are shown together in different layers. The cutout pattern on the top photograph is created based on the historical image underneath, which was taken in 1945 during Tokyo air raids. The photographs of the top layers were shot by myself.

Grain of the Voice- Resonance of Crowds
Paper, 2012, 132”x90”

Paper cutout based on the images of various crowds of people such as Black Panthers, Occupy Oakland, stop-nuclear power plant demo in Japan, etc.

Smoke, 2014, paper, 132×96”

The shape of cutout is taken from a photograph from a fire at a factory in Sendai after 3.11 East Japan Tsunami and Earthquake.

Aboveground – My Lay, 30x40x1.5 inches, 2010, archival pigment print, pin, foamcore board

Aboveground – Nanking 1, 40x60x2 inches, 2011, archival pigment print, pin, foamcore board

Aboveground – Nanking 2, 40x60x2 inches, 2011, archival pigment print, pin, foamcore board