Mio
Mobile (November 2019)
Tissue paper, wire, wood, fishing wire
63 x 45 x 15 cm
Each part of the mobile represents different elements of nature such as the sun and the moon, which interact with each other and are never fixed. This concept is linked to my theme of transient beauty and as the viewer interacts with the work their impression is ever changing with the movement and translucency of the colours. Alexander Calder influenced the kinetic design and the use of vivid, contrasting colors to show this universal subject.
Mobile II (February 2020)
Wire, tissue paper, pastel, translucent photographic images
30 x 60 x 60 cm
The wire-made leaves filled with colored tissue paper and translucent images attached to the branches let the light through, showing the ephemeral scene of sunlight filtering through leaves. A gradual change in colors on the leaves indicate seasons and changes in passing time. As the mobile revolves in the air, images from the different seasons appear. This kinetic movement was influenced by mobiles by Alexander Calder, and the movement highlights the delicate quality of Mobile II.
Color of the air in seasons (March 2020)
Acrylic on paper, white wooden frame
125 x 248 cm
With the form of Japanese traditional folded screen ‘Byobu’, each screen, with a different color combination, abstractly shows the atmosphere of the season, portraying the change and the cycle in the time passing in nature. Layered, repeating, translucent colors are influenced by Hermione Carline. These show the sunlight and its reflection in nature such as the light through leaves, while a line of light passing across the screens also indicates the idea of light interacting with nature.
Light in colors (black & white) (May 2019)
Pastels, acrylic on paper
28 x 35 cm
Light in colors is based on a photo that I took in a church. The brightest white light is emphasized by acrylic paint, and the temporary contrast of the colorful light was drawn by blueing pastels. The delicate contrast of lights show the beauty in fragility that I have represented in my work, but it also shows people’s response in their mind towards the world, a mixture of color of light (feelings before becoming a word) in a dark space generated by absorbing sunlight from the outside.
Light in colors (blue & white) (May 2019)
Acrylic on wood
55 x 20 x 1 cm (for each panel)
Four vertically long panels represent the sky around a sunset. Alternately arranged panels are influenced by a Japanese artist, Kazuko Shiihashi, and it highlights the open sky and its color gradation. A smooth gradation of the sky shows this beautiful transience. Additionally, I imagined how the brightest white light leads the gradation of light to beyond the horizon, and I aimed to communicate the nostalgic feeling of the moment when raw emotions are set in a memory or turned into the past.
Temporary beauty (March 2019)
Acrylic on wood, tissue paper, wire
56 x 54 x 1 cm
The process of the life cycle of a cherry blossom is represented by nine flower sculptures. A traditional Japanese pattern in the background means a wish for a calm eternal life. The contrast between this wish and the fate of all nature to die is influenced by Aurora by Anselm Kiefer. His work shows the inseparable existence of prosperity and decay, and the strong hope beyond. I aimed to convey the inevitable life and death, and the beauty of its transience with soft light colors.
A moment of spring (January 2019)
Dry-point etching
18 x 28 cm
The water ripples and the cherry blossoms represent a moment of spring. Cherry blossoms are a strong symbol of spring for Japanese people. They not only love the flower because of its outward beauty, but they also feel beauty for the Sakura, the briefness of the blooming time. I wanted to show this concept which is often compared with people’s lives in Japan. Japanese people believe our lives are also fugacious like the moment of the Sakura blossoms, and that is why they are beautiful.
To be continued (October 2018)
Graphite
49 x 49 cm
To be continued expresses the idea of daily life and how it is like walking on an endless road, with the perspective with white lines, the edge of the road and trees. The viewer’s eyes are diverted to the back, so there is no sense of hopelessness created by endless daily life, but a powerful momentum towards the future. Based on my photograph, Leaves, cars, signs are drawn in detail to form a reality as if you are standing on the road. This feeling makes the effect of perspective even stronger.
Daily story (November 2018)
Ceramic
17 x 23 x 4 cm
Daily story is based on the idea that daily life narrates life with everyday looking the same. The hands and stem show leading the lines in the road, and the leaves indicate day. The leaves get smaller along the hands backward to emphasize perspective. This is inspired by my drawing, To be continued and by a hand sculpture showing vital energy with a twinned stem by Kate Macdowell. The Hand of God by Rodin links to one of my concepts, the hands as a symbol of creation.
Tokyo (October 2019)
Digital photograph
60 x 42 cm (1MB)
Tokyo is made from my own and google image photographs using PicsArt. It combines different photos of the sky showing the beautiful transformation of nature and photos of the city of Tokyo, that represent the sadness in a fast-paced city, where old fashions are replaced quickly by new ones and people forget what was there before. David Hockney’s photo collages influenced this piece. High buildings and an unnatural perspective emphasise the subject, how quickly the city changes.
Unrepeatable (March 2020)
Wire, translucent photographic images, tissue paper
116 x 34 x 34 cm
Four stacked, delicate boxes which could easily collapse highlights the impermanence of a moment, where the interaction between our minds and the momentary scene of nature creates an unrepeatable feeling. Each box shows a different time in a day which evokes contrasting impressions. Christian Boltanski influenced the vertical arrangement of the cubes, the use of translucent images, and a string of lights has been added to bring more fragility to the piece by faintly lighting up the images.
