What do you do?

Thematically my projects are described as studies about patterns of human actions and issues in personal and social lives, natur in the world.

The intention is to direct people to what we can do for the future by focusing on the relationships between people, society and nature which interfer each other directly or indirectly.

One of my approaches to the themes is an attempt to direct personal stories and their surroundings in a social direction, as can be seen in the works of artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans(1968-) and Sophie Calle(1953-).

I am also influenced by Christian Boltanski(1944-2021), not least by his intense themes of life and death, memory and oblivion, presence and absence, but also by the importance of the relationship between space and work that he showed in his works.

In recent years, I have focused on memories in the projects <<possibility of the brain plasticity>> in the group exhibition <<Unstable memories>>2021, <<Water prism>> in the group exhibition <<To trace>> 2022 and group project <<The House>>2023. I continue to reserch on the same thematic projects in 2024.

On the other hand, I focus on the elements of ecosystems, plants and nature, for example, water and Hibakujumoku. Hibakujumoku is the trees that survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. While human survivors die out, and the trees are the only living witnesses left in the next ten years. These trees can play an important role in conveying the message of the brutality of war, nature's resilience, and hope for the future of the next generations. The purpose is to suggest patterns of human actions and issues that arise in our lives and nature. The relationships between people, society and nature are intertwined. The two og these important projects are continuous main reserches of my artistic activities in the future.

There will be held an exhibition with the theme <<Memories>> in Sandnes art association and in an outdoor art project exhibition <<Hibakujumoku>> carried out at Stavanger botanical garden in Norway during 2024.

Born in 1970 in Japan and studied in Japan and USA, studied photography in Italy.

Since 2000 I work as a photographer and visual artist with a camera-based expression, based in Stavanger, Norway.