Title : The Monster Within Me
Year of production : 2024
Materials : borosilicate glass
Dimensions : H40 × W13 × D13 cm
Description:
It goes back and forth between uncontrollable emotions that slowly gnaw away at my heart. Day by day, I endure the cycle of hope and despair. I wonder, “What is happening in my brain? What does it truly want?”
Sometimes, it grants me an electric high that makes my entire body shiver. At other times, it plunges me into a pitch-black abyss. Yet, I find salvation through the act of creating glass. It allows me to crawl back up and break through my shell. It is a constant loop, a circulation of feelings. Is it an enemy or an ally? It is an eternal battle with “that thing” inside of me.
Ultimately, it has become my precious partner, the one that taught me how to live. The periods of feeling free and invincible. The spinning of plus and minus. The emotions I cannot suppress The silence closing in on me. Like a mirage of a dream, sometimes gentle and sometimes harsh, it constantly asks me: “How do you want to live your life?”
Title : IKARI “anger”
Year of production :2026
Materials : .borosilicate glass
Dimensions : H40 × W13 × D13 cm
Description:
“IKARI” begins with a tiny, tiny act of endurance. “IKARI” begins with a tiny, tiny sense of unease. “IKARI” begins with a tiny, tiny sense of justice.
This is the one place I cannot back down. This is the final, precious scream of my soul. At first, small drops of endurance, unease, and justice are born within my body, one by one. In an instant, they become uncontrollable—flaming like a wildfire, baring their fangs at the world. It is the “Monster of Anger,” clumsy and desperate, struggling to follow the path it believes to be right, unable to be suppressed.
Artist Statement:
I often lose sight of my own opinions, giving the answers others expect of me. These are small lies, mere vanity. But when this becomes daily life, I lose track of my true voice. I feel my own voice fading away.
To listen to that tiny, fragile voice, to protect it, I have decided to express it. I will explore, express, and share the “likes” I cannot honestly say, the “passions” I cannot show in my daily life.
This is a work of exploration and salvation for the being that is “me.” It is a lifelong self-introduction. This is why I create.