"I have chosen photography as a medium to structure the chaos I see in the world and thus to achieve serenity in fragmented and disparate times."

"I try to express my feelings of longing and wanting to belong and connect, even though my solo journeys around the world mean that I am very much alone. This is a personal journey through which I endeavor to tell my story of reconciling my father's sudden death by relating to images that speak to quietness and life unfolding before us on a stage."

"Sixteen years ago I experienced a shock in my life. I was young and I grappled with feelings of isolation from the world. Faced with this loss, I unmoored myself and traveled freely, but with intention, a journey that has since taken me thousands of miles and across forty-four countries. What I encountered was a chaotic world, one rich with life but free of form. I struggled to make sense of this. Growing up in Tokyo, a city defined by its organized chaos, instilled in me an affinity for contextualized framing. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Hopper and Hokusai, I began seeking visual frames as a way of ordering the life I was seeing. It was my way of re-connecting with a world that I saw as fragmented and disparate. This newfound context gave me the stage on which to see the theater of life play out—the world is complex, but in structure there is serenity. It is this serenity I try to convey in my photographs."

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