"Along with my exploration of drawings themselves (which ultimately are attempts to capture subconscious imagery flows), I have been trying to create deeper, more intimate, and more precarious and fragile pictorial experiences by engaging materialities; tactility and texture, forms of canvas/media, how each image coexists and flows, how they are enclosed in objects or fixed in space, influences of associations of (everyday) objects, and so on. 

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In this exhibition, I am returning to my roots in dyeing (I studied craft dyeing as an undergraduate in Japan), and as I draw out the world of the subconscious through the image-making process guided by this technique, I developed an installation in which fabrics and structures can evoke a range of allegories and physical, tactile sensations. The relationship between (trivial) memories and bodies - or skin - would also be suggested by an accompanying video work.

 

I wanted to create a structure that was in-between and floating, yet strangely materialised and communicating with the physical senses, which is a concept that the color yellow intuitively represents and supports as well. The bone-and-skin-like structure, and the way that the image is entangled in the structure in a restless, partial and immature manner, may suggest the running of images that sleep in the body and the mutual interaction between the body and the image. "