The Work

Flower Rites approaches painting as a ritualized, embodied process shaped by shifting emotional, sensory, and psychological states. The works emerge through focused immersion in which bodily movement, sound, material interaction, and perception converge in real time.

Informed by the spatial understanding of ritual in Shinto practice, the canvas becomes a provisional perceptual space — activated through action and attention, then dissolving once the act concludes, leaving only material traces of a transient convergence between body, cognition, sensation, and environment.

Obsession investigates repetition as both a psychological condition and an embodied process. Through the repeated painting of roses with Japanese calligraphy brushes and real roses, the series produces accumulative surfaces shaped by sustained attention, compulsive gesture, and ritualized movement.

What may initially appear monotonous gradually reveals subtle differences generated through prolonged concentration. Obsession is not represented, but enacted — repetition becomes a temporal, embodied condition through which cognition, desire, memory, and material process continuously interact.

Transition explores impermanence, dematerialization, and emotional transformation through flowers in altered material states. Informed by the cultural practice of cremation in Japan, dissolution operates as a perceptual transition between presence, absence, memory, and acceptance.

Burned flowers are preserved beneath resin while rapidly executed ink works resist permanence — the series oscillates between fixation and disappearance. Impermanence is treated not as a symbolic theme, but as a structural condition underlying material existence, emotion, and memory itself.

Resilient Bloom examines the instability of moral categories and the tension produced by social judgment, cultural displacement, and collective systems of value. Through monochromatic chrysanthemum compositions, the series investigates how "good" and "evil" are continuously shaped, performed, and negotiated rather than fixed.

Drawing on traditional Japanese tattoo culture, the chrysanthemum becomes a shifting signifier through which attraction, vulnerability, aggression, mourning, and transformation coexist — a resilient form capable of holding contradiction and ambiguity at once.