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Artist Statement – FLOW Artist Statement for “Flow” SeriesStatus: Work in Progress In some areas of Fukushima, Japan, commercial plant productions are restricted since March 2011, whether if it is for food or for decorations. The explosion of the nuclear power plant, which followed after the massive earthquake and tsunami, spread dangerous amount of radiation in the surrounding area. Plants have been growing and coexisting with the radiation in the air and soil since then. Some of them even mistakenly absorb radioactive substances as nutrition and become deadly. In each photograph, there are plans that are brought from uncontaminated areas and plants that have been in the contaminated area. By juxtaposing them in one frame, I aim to raise questions about how we are going to live with the contamination. I also intend to let audience create their own idea about radiation in each photograph after finding out some of…

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Artist Statement – SCHOOLS IN TOHOKU Artist Statement for “Schools in Tohoku” SeriesStatus: Complete On March 11, 2011, massive earthquakes and tsunami hit north-east part of Japan (Tohoku) and wiped off large part of the area. Ishinomaki city, where my mother was born and grew up, and my uncle still lives, was the city that had the worst damage because of this disaster. Although I live in USA, I happened to be in Saitama, which is near Tokyo, Japan and was with my family at the time. We couldn’t reach uncle’s family for about eight days. When we were starting to think they didn’t survive, we received a phone call from them and had a huge relief. I did a lot of searches and found a way to get to the area where my uncle lives 10 days after the tsunami. After helping my uncle’s family, I had one day…

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