I begin not from fixed meaning but from what becomes necessary in the act of making, building my own methods of observation from thought and field experience — with weather, wind, waves, stones, drift objects, seaweed, sound, light, language, and data — grounded in long fieldwork on uninhabited islands and along coastlines, treating weather not as a subject to depict but as the medium we feel, move, and think within, opening the widest possible path between body and environment, gathering what falls outside plans and names, receiving each thing as itself while letting the same appear as different and the different as the same, so that a temporary shared sense can open between people, bodies, materials, and place — an open practice I keep under the name Weathering with ... ·
| selected record | location | date | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mashita Wind / 益田風 | Gero, Gifu, JP35.8°N 137.2°E | 2024 | Built around Mashita Wind, the strong seasonal wind of the Hagiwara region. Outdoor wind, sound, past data, and a visitor-operated device make wind felt as a relation between place, body, and memory. |
| AWHOB [A Weather Haecceity Observation Bureau] | Omachi, Nagano, JP36.5°N 137.9°E | 2024 | A temporary weather observatory in Omachi Park — a colour-changing lighthouse, an inflating dome, wind-holes in rock — gathering weather with terrain, plants, local sayings, memory, and each visitor. |
| S A S S P R G S T P P E B R A A S I S D T I I K | Kyoto, JP35.0°N 135.8°E | 2024 | The title is an index of sentences describing phenomena I've met; each becomes a work. Desk, monitors, and documents turned the gallery into a place to access the primary records directly. |
| Weather twin | Toyota, Aichi, JP35.1°N 137.2°E | 2023 | Present and past weather data drive light, sound, smell, and image in one space; when distant data coincide, twin voices fall into unison — a state both two and one. |
| Hey, _ | Kobe, JP34.7°N 135.2°E | 2022 | From research into greetings, plants, the city, and time on an uninhabited island. Rooftop weather data moves light, sound, heat, and air indoors, tying everyday greetings to place, body, and memory. |
| Weathering with island | VOU, Kyoto, JP35.0°N 135.8°E | 2021 | From repeated stays on an uninhabited island in the Seto Inland Sea — island images, 3D-printed weathering models, plants, drift objects, seawater distilled to fresh water. Weathering as a relation between place, body, object, and time. |
| Weathering with heteronomy | OnlineRīgas Performances festivāls | 2021 | An online performance with Latvian dancer Lolita Epnere, on the sentence "to feel each other, you use my body, and I use yours." Distance, weather, and sensation pass between two remote bodies. |
| Funakawa | Akita, JP39.7°N 140.1°E | 2017 | An installation layering the roots of the Oga Peninsula — tied to my own family name — with those of an Akita dog I met. Across wholly different beings it finds a sameness: two singular lives, each shaped by its own contingencies. |
| Yakata | Yamamoto Seika, Osaka, JP34.7°N 135.5°E | 2017 | A collaboration with musician Saya (Tenniscoats) in the closed Yamamoto Seika confectionery factory, Osaka. Objects found in the factory become drift; from a melody drawn out of waves during an island stay, a new song was made and performed among the factory's tools. |
| SUMO | Varanasi, IN25.3°N 83.0°E | 2014 | A sumo-like game begun on the banks of the Ganges with no rules fixed in advance. As the players invent the rules themselves, the work catches how coexistence and shared agreement take form through a purposeless game. |
| Bird Burial | Tibet | 2010 | A video made while assisting and filming a sky burial in Tibet — a body returned to nature by birds. The closeness of weather, nature, and the human felt there became one origin of the current practice. |