Selected Work

Untitled (Probe) [object]
2022
Aluminum, rubber, steel, plastic, zip ties, LED, buzzer, Arduino
18x4x2 in

Untitled (Probe) is both a functioning object and a video of the probe in action. A fairly normal domestic space is being examined with the probe yet it is unclear what exactly the probe is looking for. You can’t know whether this is a special ritual or whether this is part of everyday life in this place. It channels the vague anxiety of an unknown or unseen contaminant and abstracts the sensation of being in a foreign place and only partially understanding what you are seeing.

Untitled (Probe) [video]
2022
Digital video
7 min

Untitled (Semi-Domestic Hallway Space)
2021
Wood, cardboard, foam, plastic, porcelain, terra cotta, sports grip, yarn, rubber, polystyrene packing inserts, resin, polymer-modified plaster, felt, webbing, light bulb and wiring, stones, laser cutter scraps, shoji screen paper, cat shelf, driveway markers
16x23x12 ft

Images courtesy the John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Untitled (Semi-Domestic Hallway Space) looks more explicitly at my own mixed identity. As someone who grew up in the US as a child of an American and a Japanese immigrant, my relationship with Japanese culture is distant. Everything I know about it is from research or visits to family where I see things that I never fully understand and can only view through an American lens. My father, who moved to the US as a teen, can sometimes answer my questions but this knowledge feels incomplete and second-hand. The construction of the Hallway Space is minimal, as if there were holes in the builder’s plans. Elements like the entranceway, the small alcove, and the various screens reference parts of Japanese homes and aesthetics but can never quite land.

Untitled (Studio)
2020
Digital video
5 min 13 sec

Untitled (Studio) serves as the documentation of the makeshift studio I made at home when COVID hit and I was forced to leave my grad school studio. In Untitled (Studio), some familiar objects are being used in unfamiliar yet oddly satisfying ways. It explores the strangeness of the space between the familiar and the unknown.

Lamp #16
2024
Found chair frame, fabric, trim, beads, light bulb and wiring
31x30x27 in

Untitled (Cupholder) [object]
2019
Wood, MDF, OSB, vinyl, foam, fabric, rubber, plastic, aquaresin, casters
27x21x51 in

Untitled (Cupholder) [video]
2019
Digital video
27 sec

Shopping Cart [object]
2019
Wood, rubber, melamine, foam, resin, vinyl, sports grip, aluminum, steel
75x22x30 in

Shopping Cart [video]
2019
Digital video
3 min 14 sec

Untitled [Complete Fabrication Installation]
2022
Wood, plastic, rubber, vinyl, foam, hand sanitizer, LEDs, light sensor, buzzer, Arduino
Dimensions variable

Chair for Humans
2018
Steel, styrene, fabric, foam
50x45x15 in

Chair for Humans is a human body support structure designed as if I were an alien whose only information about life on Earth came from the Voyager Golden Record. Compiled by Carl Sagan, the Golden Record includes sound recordings, speech, music, and images of people, animals, plants, and Earth, itself. A copy was launched with each of the Voyager spacecrafts in 1977 to communicate “a story of our world” to an extraterrestrial species who might find them.

Chair for Humans Board
2018
Laser printed images, tape, tracing paper, marker on foam board
36x72 in

The Chair for Humans Board is a record of my analysis of the contents of the Voyager Golden Record.

Basket (Lizard)
2019
Fabric and expanding foam
30x30x33 in

One-off design object made by spraying expanding foam into sewn fabric tubes and weaving before the foam cures.

Tool #6
2018
Steel, sports grip, shelf liner, paint
15x5.5x2in

An ongoing project of ambiguously useful tools.

Tool #1
2018
Steel, paint, silicone
28x5.5x4.5in

Bedside Table
2017
Bass wood, light bulbs, switch and wiring 14x14x19in