“Do you see how an act is not... like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that’s the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier... All these act within the Equilibrium... all they do is done within the balance of the whole.
In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal? What is it but death— death without rebirth?”
The notion of ‘sacrifice' in my work is borne from the belief in Equilibrium on Earth— a balance of energies, and Yin-Yang, where two opposing energies form a whole. The fibres of natural yarn "hold" energy given by farmers and artisans. Intricate lace is the result of hundreds of hours of focused making. When these energies are sacrificed in destruction, we receive, fleetingly, emotions that remind us of the ephemeral quality of life. Despite being inanimate forms, these artworks gain ‘life’ and evoke empathy as they evolve, for that is evidence of passing time— encompassing existence itself.
Our existence itself is a contradiction— we kill in order to live, as eating is our basic form of survival. We derive pleasure from food, yet it is ‘sinful’. In creating with material that have been ‘sacrificed’, the artist must make each moment the best it can be— an eternal moment.
“[Music is] the same as Ikebana— just one moment. You can’t keep it in the world forever. It’s just that one moment, which vanishes. But that moment is eternal, and [by creating it] you can live in that eternal moment.”
Such ideas represent the amorphous duality we often confront in life, which are yet contrarily confined to binary terms by Language. With a consistent interest in the dual nature of each subject, my work prompts viewers to question their personal perceptions outside of the common consensus.