About Me


Life is full of unseen beauty and possibility. Creativity is a process to discover and foster them.
That’s why art and design are inseparable to me.

I am a media artist, designer and thinker.

My work explores emotional narrative and interactivity through digital technologies. This exploration blurs the lines between “art + design” and “body + space” to create a memorable human experience.


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Artist’s Statement


I love to create poetic and multi-sensory experience that talks to our heart.

The core idea of the Internet has altered our notion of time and space, decentralizing our body from the traditional time-space coordinates. This decentralization of self suggests diverse interpretations of the state of body, which is no longer merely a physical one – digital body.

In fact, through digital media, we render our body into experience and communication, and our body is continuously extended, multiplied and stored. Like dropped ink in the water will never be back to the original drop, I feel like I am always in flux and feel dizzy from slowly being distant from my own body and dissolved into space.

To interpret the anxiety from the “transparency” by adapting digital media to my body, I aim to re-imagine new relationships between body + space and to sense the beauty and strength in digitally augmented body via intimate experience.


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Designer’s Statement


No matter what I am designing, my design should provide meaningful experience.

I am passionate about designing interfaces and services that treat us as humans, not just “users” or “customers”.

As traditional architecture has been adapted to our living environment and cultures, I want to make the structure and solutions as responsive and comfortable as possible for people who live in the architecture.


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Location


Beppu

From: Beppu, Oita, Japan

Born and raised in a quaint small city called Beppu, located in the southern part of Japan.

Beppu is one of Japan’s most famous hot spring resorts, and hot springs are steaming everywhere! I can’t live without hot springs.

Calgary

Now: Calgary, AB, Canada

Then I moved to Calgary in Canada, where Starbucks are on every block in stead of hot springs.

After completing my BFA, I started to seek opportunities to grow here!

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Tabi

Living “cat-centred” life

I love animals in general. I grew up with 2 rabbits, 1 hamster, 10+ birds, 8 cats, 5 goldfish, 1 stray dog…, and cats are especially close to me all the time.

Currently living with a brown tabby cat named Tabi.

Coffee

I can almost say this is my blood!
Not because I’ve been drinking this since grade 9, but because coffee making is my passion!

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