--My works were made in ‘underground space’. That is, I came to move my workroom in the underground. One year passed since I have got along there, nonetheless I am still not familiar with such circumstances as dampness, isolation from the outer world, sound reverberation and fadeout, and darkness as before.
When I was not much more accustomed to the space, underground
than now, I was frightened many times at something caused by trivial behaviors done unintentionally. So to speak, loud footsteps coming down stairs, water gurgling from upstairs toilet, the noise faintly carried from a drainpipe, the sound of humidifier motor running intermittently...
All these daily repeated sounds catched my ear suddenly and faded out quietly. When I was in low spirits by colorless, toilsome, and repetitive daily life at that time, those things made me shrink into myself. But, as time went on, the new environments brought out my strong curiosity and excitement, and then I could have interest in the routine life that had worn me out. In other words, owing to living in said underground space, I came to feel the existence being melted in life of slight motions.
The movies that have been the beginning of my works all the times are ‘Life' and ‘Existence'. And, it was self-image environment(people) that has been a material for my work till now. My first private exhibition was concerned with a relation between me and boundary(protection, restraint) around me. The Second,<It-has been-there>, being planned for a period of ten years, was as recoded to identify my life, my existence through all intimate persons' identification photos and dead men's portrait photos. The latest photography work(an unpublished work) titled <observation, an observer> is repeatedly done by making myself ‘of an object’.

<Cell>, a video work this time, is a process that gropes for my existence diluted in life of minute and slight motion. My body was used as a material, too, and usually unconcerned parts(miosis, uvula, neck, and around mouth)were taken photographies. The distance between me and lens was no less than 1cm at that time. Therefore, extremely slight motions and further very little sound originating there could be captured. And then, the images were edited to those with tediousness and repetition ‘just as nothing is processed’, while the sounds were made to those with repetition by ‘being processed’ in order to grate the ear.
These two elements are represented to odd tensions in unfamiliar underground space, and the tensions will be transferred into the relaxations in becoming familiar with it.