About my work...

As we all know, There is much brutality and violence around the world.
  Everything can change in a moment,a happy, peaceful day can be destroyed in a second by things that are not in our control.
 
I used to be influenced by this continual potential for disastrous
change and I felt compelled to paint what might be called a borderline
:the line between light and dark, black and white, good and evil...etc.
The way to express this was through abstract drawings and surrealism.
But I have changed and I have begun to focus on a more happier aspect of life since

I moved here to NYC.
 
 I have been making paper sculpture since 2006.
The catalyst for this change was seeing dollhouses
created by my aunt with her husband when I retuned home to Japan on vacation.

I realized I really like miniature worlds.
 
 I actually created my first piece, based on Osaka, because I really missed my parents and I felt I could feel closer to them by recreating my hometown.

My early works are patterned after Japan and NewYork,

but now a days I work in a more imaginary works.



Personally, I find myself trying to overcome barriers to getting along with

people around me.

This gave me the idea of "Connection Between People" and it is a key theme in my artwork recently. "Connection Between People"...

 I takes the form of the word with miniature people.



I fold and glue pieces of colored paper to create 3D effects
with painstalingly detailed miniature paper sculpture.
Making details is the most interesting part for me to produce.



I hope to provide though my work, a happier side,
small happiness and kindness to people though my work.
 

To make viewers and remind them of the simple joys of childhood..