floatin'— Presences in Transformation and Being-With
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.
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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.

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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.