A while ago, the gallery I was working with invited me to participate in a group exhibition centered around the theme of alchemy. My first thought was to make a new work specifically for the exhibition. At the time, however, I was working on another painting that I thought had absolutely nothing to do with the subject. I even had a completely different work in mind for the exhibition. When the gallery proposed the exhibition to me, I was excited. It felt, for a brief and diff

Mission Pipo-Kun Mixed Media (Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Found Materials and Epoxy on OSB)81 × 122 cm – 61 × 81 cm 2026 The urban waste I carefully collected and accumulated during my travels in Japan forms both the physical and conceptual ground of this work. Ranging from chip and chocolate wrappers to beer, milk, and ice cream containers, from coins and stickers to photographs I took in photo booths while holding some of these products and money in my hands, these materials creat