'Oru' series'

There is a specific aesthetic to which I am deeply attached. I have a fascination with form which expresses “movement”, which captures the “moment” of movement. It is very important to me that the process of the change involved in the formation of a work has to be visible in the end result. When a flat sheet of metal is turned into a 3D shape, I like that viewers can read the trace of the transformation in the form. In Japanese script the word oru means ‘to fold’. Its appearance and sound is similar to the word inoru, which means ‘to pray’. Folding is my prime method of forming metal.

'Coil Works'

When a wire winds to a shape of coil, it develops a variety of expressive forms. At the beginning I set a certain pattern of the repetitive movement, snaking the line of the wire. Almost inevitably though it is the wire itself which seems to make its own decision as to which way it will transform, growing bigger and stronger then reducing the scale gradually or shifting its balance spontaneously. One important job for me to do is to make the ends to meet! That done a single wire is looped to present a continuous and endless form.