Every morning in Japan, newspapers arrive at households wrapped in countless advertising flyers — ephemeral fragments of a consumer-driven world.... Read More
Every morning in Japan, newspapers arrive at households wrapped in countless advertising flyers — ephemeral fragments of a consumer-driven world. I gather these papers and subject them to a relentless cycle of layering, tearing, and peeling. Through this process, time itself accumulates on the surface, and memory emerges not as a single image but as sediment, fragile yet enduring.What was once persuasive information dissolves into abstraction. The flood of printed matter, stripped of its original function, becomes a mirror of our contemporary condition: the tension between excess and absence, between what vanishes and what remains.
My work is not an act of recycling, but a meditation on persistence. Through slow, repetitive labor, I confront the rhythm of consumption with the rhythm of the hand. Each surface holds traces of loss, resilience, and continuity — a layered testimony to the fragile yet permanent relationship between human beings, time, and the everyday.