Freelance
Creative Direction
Installations
Fine Art
2025
Titled "We Speak Softly in the Between" is a kinetic installation born from distance and longing. As artist duo with my partner I created a work that transforms the invisible space between two people into something tangible, a meditation on connection, absence.
Presented at the Aranya Theater Festival in June 2025, the work was later permanently acquired by Shanghai’s Meilan West Lake Honeycomb Art Center, where it has since been installed in front of the museum’s main entrance.
The work was born from something deeply personal—our long-distance relationship between New York and Tokyo. As an artist duo, we translated emotional distance into spatial language.
Two 13-meter aluminum walls neither parallel nor mirror each other, they subtly converge, like timelines striving to align. They never touch, yet create an intimate charged field between them.
The void is the true subject: not the structures, but the absence they frame, the distance they measure, the longing they make tangible. We were sculpting emptiness. When visitors walked through, they encountered not just our personal narrative, but a shared meditation on the rarity of human connection across time and space.
Architectural aluminum is often cold and divisive. Here, the 7,000 tiles are imbued with vitality. Each hangs independently, moving with the wind, allowing the walls to breathe rather than divide. Their reflective surfaces capture human silhouettes, the shoreline, shifting light—an ever-changing record of time and encounter. At the center stands a tree, anchoring the flux. A fusion of rational structure and sensitive skin, where wind and light become integral to the architecture.
We Speak Softly in the Between is more than an artwork: it functioned as a public arena. During the ten-day festival, it became a site of gathering: people resting in the shade, children striking the tiles to create sound, visitors and artists conversing beneath the central tree, sanitation workers pausing for respite, lovers walking the curves, dancers and musicians improvising within its space. The installation became both stage and social nexus, open to everyday life and inscribed into the festival’s collective memory.
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