MIXED MEDIA

Mada Soba ni iru yo (2023) portrays a Surrealistic scene of a dancing maiden in a convoluted buckwheat noodles restaurant. There are 3 sets of sliding doors separating each room. In the foreground, a pink roller coaster serves as a conveyor belt serving the sushi with tiny animal characters on the plates. There is a row of empty seats at the table of the restaurant. In the next room, there is a light pink Merry-go-round with a bowl of soba as its roof and glass horses that have takeaway dishes as their torsos. Further in the back room, there is a ferris wheel with piping hot dishes as each cargo. In the furthermost of the background, there is a clutter of items acquired at a summer festival, stuffed from the floor to the ceiling.
Mada Soba ni iru yo (2023) has dual meaning; '[I am] still by your side' and 'there are still buckwheat noodles'. This Maximalist art reminds viewers to be grateful for what one already has and to count their blessings. If we look around us, just like this dancing maiden, there are many things to be happy about.
The latest college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture will further be transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in May 2023. Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

Parasite Paradise (2023) shows a chimera with a human head, body of a red cardinal bird and a pair of crocodile feet with cherry blossom branches growing out from her left eye. She holds a teddy bear on her left wing while a mini yellow taxi rides on her ocean-waves hair. In the background, four worlds seem to collide and converge behind her; the underwater world with a sheep residing among the sparse coral reefs, a lonely autumn tree hollowed for a merry-go-round ride with an opened mouth at its crown, a small town with pink grass and gigantic green eyes, and a four-poster bed in the outer space that has an orange ear floating on its roof.
This mixed media artwork is an outrageous extrapolation of the future as a result of poor environmental management. In this warped reality, as humans continue to exploit our finite resources, the accumulation of pollutions caused drastic mutations in the ecosystem, even extending to outer space. Eventually, everything falls apart, with land animals living under water, humans becoming part of the nature where organs sprouts among plants, and human infrastructure randomly appearing in space.
The latest college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture will further be transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in May 2023. Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

Shelltered Life (2022) shows a turtle residing in a temple made from Polaroid photographic films as the walls and an opened book as its roof. On the roof is a seashell fairy, a traveller gray kitten, and a large oyster shell. Flowers are growing out from the walls and roof of the temple and there are two vending machines flanking the reptile. In the background there is a row of vending machines selling various items such as stationery, snacks, fruits, and plates of food. A white unicorn was surfing down a steep waterfall and there are more temples along the hills. This mixed media art questions the boundary between the need and want of a sheltered life. Despite already having an organic shield from harm (shell), the turtle has enhanced his protection by living in a temple. Extreme convenience is amplified when his needs are met within an arms reach, if not, within a few steps. How much is too much?
A college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture will further be transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in April 2022 and exhibited in mid April at 「私の可愛いOO」 Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

Pseudonymph (2022) portrays a hamster in a makeshift go-cart vehicle, made from an orange slice, cream puff, and plates of rice, crossing the finishing line. Glittery gold and pastel confetti greets him with tiny animals hovering around in rockets and hot air balloons made from cereal bowl, Japanese noodle bowl, cotton candy, ice cream cone, and strawberry shortcake. The title is a wordplay between 'pseudonym' and 'nymph', questioning the line between pretend and genuineness. We often experience the Imposter Syndrome when we try to be someone we are not, or are on the way to becoming. However, we are in a constant state of change; it is hard to determine who our true self is. If the feeling of impostorism is real, are we fake? If 'faking it' helps us to 'make it', is the new version of our fake self real?
A college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture will further be transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in April 2022 and exhibited in mid April at 「私の可愛いOO」 Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

See-Saw Seen (2022) shows a Alice-in-Wonderland-resque scene at a playground raining golden glitter. Among the randomly running ladders is a complex structure of a see-saw made with two flower stalks as the plank and an inverted candy floss balancing on a small glass of ice cream scoop as the fulcrum. A pale-skin girl with lilac purple hair is on the swing on one end, while a colourful hamster is flying a snail-shaped kite on the other. There is a train shooting across the sky made from a piece of carp-shaped waffle and ice cream cone. This work provokes the viewer the fragile balance between permanence and temporal. The nonsensical see-saw is built from objects that will melt and wilt, while the connection between play and childhood remain permanent in our memory. The continuous up-and-down motion on the see-saw has no start and end, no winners and losers, therefore reflecting the wordplay in the title of three grammatical forms 'see', 'saw', and 'seen'.
A college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture was transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture 'See-Saw Seen-Sawn (2023)' in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in April 2022 and exhibited in mid April at 「私の可愛いOO」 Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

Surfing While Cooking (2022) portrays a masked girl surfing on a huge tulip while cooking some pancakes. Her skirt extends into a merry-go-round with colourful pompoms and wild animals such as elephants and hippopotamus oscillating around her. She is on the crest of the pastel wave with an untidy stack of teacups pouring milk tea behind her and goldfish-shaped teabags hanging from the ceiling. There were cakes being thrown everywhere, even in the waters. This work symbolises our tendency to challenge what is known; while we are aware that multi-tasking is not the best way to work, we still do so because we think we can pull it off, just like this subject. Despite being surrounded by distractions, we believe we can stay focus and accomplish the tasks we intend to do so within a set limited duration.
A college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture will further be transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in April 2022 and exhibited in mid April at 「私の可愛いOO」 Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

The Irrefutable Lemonade Stand (2022) displays a convoluting space of rooms with a dynamic moving house as the focus subject. The moving house is built from a piece of lemon as the room, a lemon slice as the base, lace as the roof top, and a pair of fishnet tights-clad legs in red heels as its mode of transportation. The architectural structure seems to be ascending up the stairs from the red conveyor belt of tiny vehicles made from sushi plates you'd see in Japanese restaurants. This artwork expresses the stubbornness yet persistence of humans, even at the expense of being ridiculed, being ridiculous, or both.
A college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture will further be transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in April 2022 and exhibited in mid April at 「私の可愛いOO」 Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

Onwards (2022) shows a chocolate fairy riding on gigantic cream white pomeranian puppy with an octopus inverted chocolate mint ice cream cone dangling like a carrot stick. On the dog's back is a stack of donut and three-scoop ice cream cone, with a calico kitten erecting a chocolate waffle stick with two pieces of taiyaki ice cream like the koiburi carp banner flag pole. The focus subjects are on a long voyage, surrounded by confusing hills and terrains. We cannot determine the direction they are traveling towards; neither forward nor backwards. However, there is one thing we are very certain, they are going onwards. In life, we thought we could control our paths by acquiring specific knowledge, experiences, and skill set, but there will sure be hurdles along the way, leading us to change direction, re-route, or take the road less traveled. Sometimes, we got confused, and even lost, that we lost track of our time and direction. The only way forward is to move onwards.
A college portrait combining 1-cm miniature felt dolls, 2-cm plush toys, and 4-cm sculptures with felt-textured illustrations. This sculpture will further be transformed into a larger 9-cm sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Completed in April 2022 and exhibited in mid April at 「私の可愛いOO」 Available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.

Heads up! Let your mind wander the countless imaginative meaning behind this piece 'Heads In Cloud Nine (2021). "Don't lose your head" is an idiomatic expression we often hear when we get overly emotional, particularly panicky or excited. Having our heads in cloud nine makes me wonder if it has similar meaning with the aforementioned phrase. Where do their heads go? One might not get their heads around. If no one ever solves this mystery, the sculptor might get a big head. What a headache!
A college portrait showing repeated layers of the 9-cm sculpture 'Heads in Cloud Nine (2021). This sculpture will be transformed into a larger sculpture in 'Your Daily Series'. Curated and available as museum canvas prints at Artrepreneur.