Japanese Jomon pottery, Korean Yi Dynasty ceramics and ancient Greek sculpture have a simplicity about them. I explore the compatibility between this simplicity and abstract expression.

Even in everyday life, we unconsciously imagine something, combine it with something else in our minds, find an answer, and combine the answer again with another thing as we seek further answers. Our everyday life is like a recipe. I do this consciously in my creation.

Japanese pottery has been greatly influenced by Korea and China throughout its long history, beginning in the Jomon period. From this period onward, Japanese pottery had already been combined with different forms from other countries to create new originals.

The same is true for language and writing in civilization. Letters have meaning and are tools for people to carry out communication. But I often find myself attracted not to the meaning of the letters, but to the shapes of them.

The size of a closed square, the length of a stroke, the number of dots when there are too many--all these things look very interesting to me, even though I can't read them. I expand my imagination about their history and the present.

New originals have run out today, but I dare to explore the new originals that lie beyond the fusion of different races, cultures, and histories. I believe that this is a part of our effort to create a new civilization for the future.