‘Koware ta Mizu’, 2025, Textured canvas on wood frame, handmade mineral pigments & acrylic

‘Koware ta Mizu’ explores the delicate, ever-changing essence of water, where ripples fracture and shimmer under subtle gold highlights. Textured layers of handmade mineral pigments and acrylic give the piece a tangible presence, evoking both materiality and transience. Inspired by Eastern and Western philosophies of continual change, the work meditates on how rupture can give rise to renewal. Gold accents punctuate moments of tension and beauty, transforming fractured water into a symbol of resilience and transcendence, a luminous reflection on life’s fleeting, radiant rhythms.