Izumo Tsuzuri is an art-design bag that weaves together the landscapes, memories, and myths of Izumo through hand-stitched patchwork crafted one stitch at a time.
The work began with a desire to tell the stories of Izumo mythology not through words or text, but through the medium of a bag. This idea became the foundation of the design.
Its patchwork surface portrays deities, landscapes, and symbolic elements drawn from the myths of Izumo, transforming cultural narratives into a visual and tactile form.
In Izumo mythology, spirits and divine presences are believed to dwell within all things. Reflecting this worldview, I regard each fragment of discarded leather as carrying its own traces of life and memory.
By stitching these fragments together, I seek to create new narratives from materials that have already fulfilled their original purpose.
Izumo Tsuzuri is not a work intended to preserve mythology as a fixed relic of the past. Rather, it reconnects the memories embedded within leather with the stories of Izumo mythology, giving rise to a new form of storytelling that continues to evolve in the present.
