I am sitting in a light-filled room overlooking a park in Brooklyn, where I call my home and studio for over 20 years. I consider myself at this point as a New Yorker although I was originally born in Tokyo in the 60s.  I'd first set foot in the United States as a 10-year old on a tour traveling California with a bunch of teenagers, supervised by some adults. We'd visited the Disneyland, Grand Canyon, and (of all places) a bar that had hundreds of chopped dusty neckties taken from patrons hanging from the ceiling  --America had made a huge impression on me, to say the least. 5 years after that trip, I moved to Boston to attend high school and eventually college - the beginning of my life in the USA. 

     My preoccupation is a relationship we have as a specie with other organisms on this planet. How we evolved and began to cultivate our human culture, which turned out to be a two-edged sword, capable of great many things (including art and science)  but also of disrupting and destroying  our planet and its habitants. Though oscillating (style wise) between figuration and abstraction, 2-D and 3-D, my medium of choice has been "paper" all along. This everyday material that is fragile and easily manipulated, can last thousands of years under a right condition (Egyptian papyrus among them).