About my work...

My work hovers between painting and drawing, a flat sensibility that comes from growing up in Japan among Chinese-characters and graphics mashed together to organize small spaces. Another influence is 16th-century Japanese screen paintings and 15th-century Netherlandish paintings–which jump between aerial, perspectival, and frontal views to best illustrate their stories. My painting-drawings are devoid of figures–they are abstract spaces in a parallel universe, showing how the world might look had Orwell's visions come true, if a building could self-replicate like cells, or if utopian dreamers brainstormed together to build a new habitat.