Black Heaven
Medium: Etching and Drypoint on Gampi
Concept:
Black Heaven examines trauma and loss through the World War II bombing of Japan, created while listening to my mother recount her experiences during the actual bombing in Tokyo. Using a contemporary, process-driven approach, layered etching and drypoint on delicate Gampi paper accumulate like an archive of absence and destruction. Repeated gestures—burnishing, biting, and reworking—trace the tension between control and chance, allowing the material to hold both devastation and resilience. The work transforms historical rupture into a reflective space, exploring impermanence, vulnerability, and the ways collective memory resonates through material and process.
Crane Wife Series
Medium: Etchings, hand-shredded silk, feathers, prints
Concept:
This series of etchings reinterprets The Crane Wife through a contemporary lens, exploring desire, possession, and the fragility of trust. A man rescues an injured crane, which becomes his wife and weaves silk under the condition he never watches. His growing greed betrays her, revealing her true form. Using etchings alongside hand-shredded silk, feathers, and prints, the work translates themes of love, loss, and transformation into a tactile, visual experience while reflecting on human impact, vulnerability, and the complex dynamics of care and exploitation.
Medium: Etchings, hand-shredded silk, feathers, prints
Concept:
This series of etchings reinterprets The Crane Wife through a contemporary lens, exploring desire, possession, and the fragility of trust. A man rescues an injured crane, which becomes his wife and weaves silk under the condition he never watches. His growing greed betrays her, revealing her true form. Using etchings alongside hand-shredded silk, feathers, and prints, the work translates themes of love, loss, and transformation into a tactile, visual experience while reflecting on human impact, vulnerability, and the complex dynamics of care and exploitation.
Crane Wife Series
Medium: Etchings, hand-shredded silk, feathers, prints
Concept:
This series of etchings reinterprets The Crane Wife through a contemporary lens, exploring desire, possession, and the fragility of trust. A man rescues an injured crane, which becomes his wife and weaves silk under the condition he never watches. His growing greed betrays her, revealing her true form. Using etchings alongside hand-shredded silk, feathers, and prints, the work translates themes of love, loss, and transformation into a tactile, visual experience while reflecting on human impact, vulnerability, and the complex dynamics of care and exploitation.
Crane Wife Series
Medium: Etchings, hand-shredded silk, feathers, prints
Concept:
This series of etchings reinterprets The Crane Wife through a contemporary lens, exploring desire, possession, and the fragility of trust. A man rescues an injured crane, which becomes his wife and weaves silk under the condition he never watches. His growing greed betrays her, revealing her true form. Using etchings alongside hand-shredded silk, feathers, and prints, the work translates themes of love, loss, and transformation into a tactile, visual experience while reflecting on human impact, vulnerability, and the complex dynamics of care and exploitation.
Concept:
Inspired by Meoto Iwa—two sacred rocks in Japan bound by rope—Love Echo explores connection, interdependence, and the balance between unity and individuality. The print reflects the fragility and endurance of relationships, using presence, tension, and resonance as visual language. By evoking natural forms and symbolic gestures, it becomes a meditation on love as both sustaining and vulnerable, inviting viewers to consider the subtle dynamics that bind and separate us.
Concept:
Andromeda Strain explores how material and process can reflect unseen systems of presence, disruption, and transformation. Layered etching, hand-embroidery, varied textures, and repeated marks accumulate gestures that trace the tension between control and unpredictability. Burnishing, biting, and reworking the plate become forms of observation, turning the etching’s materiality into a space to explore vulnerability and the subtle forces operating beneath perception.
Concept:
The Seasons draws on Japanese and Chinese painting traditions, where the cycles of nature and passage of time are conveyed through observation, brushwork, and composition. Using Direct Gravure on Kitakata paper, I translate these sensibilities into a contemporary, process-driven practice. Layered textures, repeated marks, and tonal shifts evoke light, atmosphere, and seasonal change, allowing material and gesture to accumulate like memory. The work creates a dialogue between tradition and experimentation, connecting meditative engagement with nature to explorations of impermanence, rhythm, and the layered experience of time.