Innocence, Narrativity, and Unawareness.
I create my works by constantly balancing these three elements.

Because wood carving possesses such a powerful sense of physical presence, I often feel as though my pieces are creatures born into the world fully formed—as adults who never experienced a larval stage. To capture this state exactly as it is, I carve and paint them while keeping facial expressions to an absolute minimum.

The form itself, including the clothing, embodies a narrative. However, I prefer to clothe my works in stories of high fictionality rather than reality. I feel that tethering a physically evocative form to a realistic story risks confining it within the cramped limits of a “diminished diorama.”

Rather than seeking empathy from the viewer, my goal is to guide them into a world of free imagination through an “alien” sense of fiction. In doing so, I make it a point to ensure that the subjects themselves remain entirely unaware of the very stories they wear.

available works

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