News

I am honored to announce that my project Burn Line has been selected as the winner of the 2nd GOJO+ Award. The juried award recognizes work engaging with the theme of fire, tied to the area’s history of ceramics and cremation, making it a natural fit for my charcoal-based series.

Burn Line is an ongoing project responding to the Los Angeles wildfires. The work combines photographs made at fire locations with pyrotypes—images engraved into wood and then transformed into charcoal through controlled burning. The pyrotype images originate from photographs shared by people who lost personal objects in the fires.

Together these works explore how photography can carry memory through transformation, loss, and material change.

Read more information about the installation, including the full artist statement in English and Japanese, as well as the “behind the scenes” video. See also: project overview.

Exhibition Information

Burn Line
Exhibition #29 on the festival map.

Nohga Hotel Kiyomizu Kyoto
April 18–May 17, 2026
Open everyday, 11am-5pm
Located near Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto’s historic Gojo district. (map)
Exhibition video is in lobby and main installation is downstairs in Meditation Room (ロビー／メディテーションルーム)

Events

I will have three informal “Meet The Artist” events in the gallery and one interview. I will be in the gallery at other times also so feel free to contact me.

April 23, Thursday 3-5pm (with special charcoal-themed snacks!)
April 24, Friday 3-5pm
May 1, Friday 3-5pm
May 3, Sunday 3-4:30pm
Evolution of the Pyrotype: The GOJO+ Award
I will be in conversation with Naoyuki Ogino (Director, GOJO+ AWARD).
location: Kurochiku Makura Building, 1F (map) (this is the building with the 10 KG+ “Select” exhibitions)

Nohga Hotel Meditation Room

My installation will take place in the meditation room on the lower level of the hotel (take the elevator to B1F). Within this quiet space, I built a skeletal house structure—an architectural outline that holds the work and echoes the homes it emerges from. I think of it like the dream of a house – at once burned and not burned.

“Teaser” video for KG+

Installation Images

Installation time lapse part 1:

part 2 & part 3

About GOJO+

GOJO+ is a series of community-based exhibitions in Kyoto’s historic Gojo district. Held under the theme “Terra, Flamma, Ars,” the program is a certified satellite of the KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival (KG+). “Earth/Flame” symbolizes the intersection of light, clay, and the human spirit.