floatin’ is a series of works inspired by an experience from my early childhood.
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I grew up on reclaimed land along Tokyo Bay.

As a child, when I gazed at objects floating on the water’s surface, I felt they were quietly gathering, blending together, and eventually merging with me.

It was a beautiful sensation—where boundaries dissolved, and I became one with everything around me.

That experience left a lasting awareness: I might always be something other than myself. This realization, rather than bringing melancholy, instilled a profound sense of peace and comfort, resonating with Eastern philosophies where existence is seen as constantly dispersing and interconnected.
 

Perhaps, at this very moment, I am someone’s lips—or a droplet of water resting on a leaf.

That droplet might be ketchup, and it might be connected to other memories or materials.

As things continue to shift and blend, the feeling of “us” gently emerges. In essence, each piece within ‘floatin’ is not just my personal self-portrait, but also aims to be a visual reflection for every viewer, inviting them to contemplate their own fluid identity and deep connection to the universe.​

floatin’ is an attempt to quietly scoop up such presences of being-with—
a way of recreating, through painting, that moment when all boundaries dissolved.
These works reflect how beings drift, dissolve, and blend—never alone, always together.