My work investigates lonely and impersonal interactions within a contemporary society.  Drawing from my life experiences in Tokyo, Japan, my works are a deconstruction of the gesellschaft society, a society characterized by cold impersonality, portrayed through spatial relationships among vague characters within a public urban landscape.  Through this imagery I address the existential concept of waiting in a an inescapable, mundane cycle, as explored by modern literature such as Samual Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, and Woody Allen’s Death.   
           Captivated by the idea of the impersonal and its reflection in ambiguity, I express the dialectic of the familiar and the unfamiliar as a functional aesthetic.  I create oil paintings of stark, atmospheric landscapes of urban areas and interactive video projections from code paired with edited pornographic video.  The content speaks louder than my paintings while addressing the same ideas of the impersonal.  My videos create a distance between the viewer and the work, while my paintings depict an environment of distance between people.  Together, they highlight a different side of the same idea of the impersonal.
        The neutral gray colors set a quiet mood against the loud patterns of fast and aggressive paint marks, relating to the pace of an urban city,  while the quiet and subdued colors reflect a placeless solitude within the human subjects. The large areas of cold white light create an atmosphere of emptiness.  Together, the motion of the paint and limited color palette is meant to convey the idea of running without any driven direction or running nowhere.  The space between the people depict their loss of personable interactions.  As the people farther into the background become more abstracted they merge into an indistinct crowd yet remain distanced from one another, illustrating the impersonal.
           My video installations use space to create a distance between the viewer and the projected idea of intimacy through hiding and obscuring the pornographic video.  My video installation 'Titays an Ayus' take the impersonal to a more interactive level, while preserving the abstraction and glitchy qualities of my paintings.  My videos create a physical and psychological distance between the viewer and the work, obscuring of visual information through pixelation and by changing the scene as viewer enters the installation space.  This distance, in both a literal and metaphorical sense, is meant to intrigue and tease the viewer through disrupting and distorting the flow of visual information.
          Over the last year, I have taken part in collaborations with digital artists residing in United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Guam, Canada, and Argentina.  Although my works are largely devoted to existential concepts of loneliness and the impersonal,  I use collaboration as a personal resolution to connect with artists of diverse backgrounds.  My aspirations for graduate school is to further investigate with resources that will encourage integration of new and traditional methods within the time based realm as well as encourage collaboration among students of diverse artistic backgrounds.