My interest in visual phenomenon and their connection with my mental image has been consistent since childhood. When I was 5-year-old, I lost my grandmother, and my family moved from Japan to Singapore. I made a secret little altar in a corner of the parking lot to talk to my invisible grandmother. I lined it with stones, decorated it with lily yarn, and flowers, and imitated prayers. I have been an "outsider" living in other countries since I was a child, but this experience was the beginning of my need to create art and led me to cultivate my visual language. The sun, the moon, the waves, and the horizon are often depicted in my paintings. I’m often touched by the light reflection and shadow created by those elements. I think this is because we live in a sense of time created by the sun and the moon, and we live by feeling them with our bodies as warmth and gravity. I'm also aware of the horizon because I can feel the presence of someone or somewhere beyond it that I want to meet or go. My life experience made me value the visual phenomenon of nature and it appears in my work.

Lightness, darkness, and colors I perceive and those sensations are essential elements of my work. After images are also my interest because those only exist in my eyes but give me such sensations that are remembered in my mind and create layers of colors. It connects visual images and my unconscious mind. I use liquid transparent paint media such as oil paints, watercolors, silks to capture light going through paintings and to create breathing space with layers of colors. The layers of colors and the color gradation are marks of my time passage. My works also express my unique sense of scale, the images can be seen as both micro and micro moreover, there is not much sense of gravity because I do not want to limit or judge my vision by visualizing it.

Colors invite us to see paintings as space. Pictorial space is fascinating, it seems illusionistic although materialistic. I’m able to project both my conscious and subconscious minds as a visual of the artworks. As I am working on a painting, positive and negative space can be the other way around. All these dualities are unified in the work, therefore, painting is the perfect revealed world for me.