Born in Saitama, Japan, based in Kyoto since 2024, I graduated from Tohoku University of Art & Design, Department of Architecture and Environmental Design in 2013.Drawing on my experience in project direction for architectural and design projects, I am interested in the processes that precede the creation of form, and this informs my artistic practice.Using the traces of thought and hesitation found in architects’ drawings and unbuilt architecture as clues, I explore the dissonance—such as the discrepancies and noise that arise during the translation from image to form—while continually questioning what kind of landscape the “world that never came to be” might look like.

When we think about architecture or create a space, there is always a place there. Architects design buildings within various constraints, yet the drawings they create—and the unbuilt architecture that stems from them—seem to depict landscapes liberated from the limitations of reality. At times, this represents hope; at other times, it embodies the sadness of what can never be realized. This contradictory line of thought manifests as lines in the process of translation, yet I feel that this place—which does not exist in reality—is indeed there.

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How did architects—who create spaces by seeking the possibility of freedom within constraints—view that place? How did they depict it?
I found myself wanting to see such a world that never came to be.