Artist Statement

Co-created with the cosmos.

My work is a dialogue with wood grain — I paint what I find within it. Wood grain is a trace inscribed over long years by natural forces: weather, gravity, the seasons, the earth's rotation, sunlight. I see it as a physical record of cosmic rhythm. And so I think of this practice as an act of integrating the individual self into a whole far older and larger than I am. In the dark, the work glows quietly.

As the support that carries this record, I work primarily with reclaimed wood gathered from the streets. I wash what has been discarded and bring it back to life as art. Each piece has a form like no other, its cracks, its scars — quiet traces of an unknown life that once touched it.

This practice resonates with the Law of Dependent Origination, as taught by Shakyamuni — the understanding that all things exist through mutual dependence. It connects, too, with wabi-sabi, ichigo-ichie, and Ko-Shinto — things alive within me that I rediscovered as I left my homeland, traveled the world, and made a life abroad.

Nature and humanity. The individual and the whole. Past and future. All of it, one.