World events, political satire and social commentary are expressed in my artwork. Under the current political circumstances, history is often ignored or forgotten. My work is a response to the misinterpretation and continuous change in the world around us.


Today, I have an increased sensitivity towards current events. I believe that one’s mind, especially in my generation, needs to be flexible enough to accept and to be prepared for the world change that is continuously happening. My experiences of travel have allowed me to be receptive to a culture beyond the information of mass media. I have learned not to rely on the sanitized media that causes public fear, which separate us from developing a cultural awareness. Without this awareness, our world may collapse sooner than we have predicted.


My experiences of living in both Japan and the U.S. for more than a decade have developed my understanding of culture and human race from a comparative perspective. I frequently find myself conflicted, contradicted, and appreciative of each situation from different point of views. Logically, I need to process and reconcile the experience, while creatively I want to remember and memorialize it. This dichotomy of self has inspired me to create my current body of work.


My visual aesthetic has an element of Japanese pop culture: colorful, playful and graphic cute low-profile items, which distinguish my childhood surroundings. Silkscreen is the ideal medium for my work. It allows me to explore a visual aesthetic of bright colors, patterning, and repetition. I am fascinated by the ability to make multiples of strong graphic images and the capability of being able to create large-scale work in a short period of time. I also manipulate and incorporate photographs into a great deal of my work because photography is a form of documentation that has high potential to demonstrate our perception of reality. I exploit this medium as a device that offers me a diversity of practice, interpretation and experimentation with the silkscreen method. I attempt to integrate the various mediums of print and photos in such a way that they interweave with the way I see.


I see my creative process as an act of recording transitory histories. In my work I intend to inform the past and the present in hopes of challenging people to not only investigate and question the world we live in, but also to be an active participant in society.