I am currently holding a solo exhibition on the 30th floor of Yodoyabashi Station One.

It all began in 2025, when I applied to the “Different Kyomachibori Art Fair 2025” and was selected to exhibit. Through that connection, the organizer, chignitta, invited me, which led to this exhibition.

Kyomachibori in Nishi-ku, Osaka, is the stage for a creator-first art fair that connects people, the city, and art. Artists, illustrators, creators, and many other kinds of makers gathered at the venues. While I was at the gallery myself, I made new friends and felt firsthand the energy of so many different worldviews coming together in one neighborhood.

This time the venue is the 30th floor of the new Yodoyabashi Station One. In a place with breathtaking views, many people see the works every day. Eleven works are on display.

Once again, starting from photography, I use lenticular and layering techniques. I add texture over the photographs with diatomaceous earth, layer many colors of paint, and finally paint boldly over everything in black or white. The works on display have gone through this process.

For me, this has become a body of work with more punch than ever before.

Interpretations of the times and of history. Interpretations of my own emotions. Painting over feelings, hiding them, pretending they never existed. I threw those fluid, wavering emotions directly into the works.

Right now, I am in the middle of a turning point.

In my home studio, works I have shown in many exhibitions are piling up. Even the workspace I took the trouble to organize keeps filling with more works. I still haven’t found the time to sort through them.

But I feel this exhibition also reflects the state I am in right now.